“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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Fernando Pessoa288
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935Related quotes
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