We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited
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