“My past is everything I failed to be.”

— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 100

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Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

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