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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

Fernando Pessoa
Time, Rivers, Clothes

It's been a long time since I've been me.

Fernando Pessoa
Time, Long, Long Time
Fernando Pessoa (2009). “The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935”

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

Fernando Pessoa
Life, Time, Sadness
Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books

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