The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men - Fernando Pessoa

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

أن تبقى وحيدا، يعني أن تبقي طاهرا وصادقا في روحك. الانسان - هذا الكائن الجماعي - كائن فاسد.