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I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the

I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

Fernando Pessoa
Dream, Book, Character
Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

Fernando Pessoa
Real, Book, Character
Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books

I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

Fernando Pessoa
Dream, Book, Character
Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Fernando Pessoa
Dream, Character, Quality
Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Fernando Pessoa
Passion, Character, Soul
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 413, 1982.

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