“I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 353
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Eu não escrevo em português. Escrevo eu mesmo.
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