“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“And they don't know what I feel.”
Letter to Madame Mohl (13 December 1861)
The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913)
Context: People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels. No, I say, I don't and I'm very glad I don't. And they don't know what I feel. … I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.
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