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The Book of Disquiet
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"The Book of Disquiet" Quotes

A collection of fragmented thoughts and musings that explore themes of existentialism and melancholy.

fiction | 922 pages | Published in 2002

Quotes

I carry within me a cemetery full of my own regrets.

Fernando Pessoa

Everything I experience is transformed into little paragraphs for my diary.

Fernando Pessoa

I am a museum full of art but lacking in inspiration.

Fernando Pessoa

I long for nothing more than to be unknown and to know myself.

Fernando Pessoa

I feel the joy of sadness.

Fernando Pessoa

I define myself by contradiction, and sometimes I have great pleasure in contradicting myself.

Fernando Pessoa

Happiness is the absence of a striving for happiness.

Fernando Pessoa

My soul is a black abyss, a bottomless well of emptiness.

Fernando Pessoa

To speak is to lie. To be silent is to lie. Silence must be given a form.

Fernando Pessoa

I would like to be old the way some people like to be famous.

Fernando Pessoa