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The Book of Disquiet

For the first time―and in the best translation ever―the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparisonThe Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achieve

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“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Interest, Needs and Wants, Soul Searching

“My memories have turned into anxieties.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Anxiety, Memories

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Life

“Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn’t need to take the one and only outfit he’d worn.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, departure, Death and Life

“The beauty of a naked body is only appreciated by cultures that use clothing. Modesty is important for sensuality like resistance for energy.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: cultures, Human Body, Nudity, naked body, natural beauty

“I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Art, Soul

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Idealistic Love, Philosophy

“My head and the universe ache me.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Universe, Pain, Thoughts

“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Day, Productivity, Existence, Routine, Life

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, Forgetting, Awake

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Love

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, dreams come true, keep dreaming, Inspirational

“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn’t mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The on…”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Poetry, Life

“I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Art, Soul

“I’ve never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreaming, Dreams, Dreamer, Life, Inner Life

“Ah, who will save me from existing? It’s neither death nor life that I want.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Existential Crisis

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

Tagged: Literature, Books, Reading, Life