“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”

—  Fernando Pessoa , book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.

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