“I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist.
I'm the gap between what I'd like to be and what others have made me.”
Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.
Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), "Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.", in Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Poems, trans. Richard Zenith (Grove Press, 1998)
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Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo. Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
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