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The Book of Disquiet

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Work by Fernando Pessoa containing reflections on alienation, melancholy, and the preference for literature over reality.

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"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's exi"
Some quotes I liked from Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet" · u/Mannerly_Misanthrope · ↑27 · 2023-01-05
"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was"
Some quotes I liked from Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet" · u/Mannerly_Misanthrope · ↑27 · 2023-01-05
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