“I have always experienced actual sensations less intensely than the sensation of having those sensations. I have always found my awareness of suffering more painful than the suffering itself.” Fernando Pessoa
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‘to speak is to show too much consideration for others’
“To speak is to show too much consideration for others. The fish and Oscar Wilde both died by the mouth.” Fernando Pessoa
‘the human soul is inevitably the victim of the painful surprise’
“The human soul is inevitably the victim of the pain of the painful surprise provoked even by the most unsurprising of events” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 20th century poetry
‘devoid of anyone of both an intellect and a heart’
“The generation to which I belong to was born into a world devoid of certainty for anyone possessed of both an intellect and a heart. The destructive work of previous generations meant that the world into which we were born had no security to offer us as regards religion, no anchor as regards morality, no…
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