To feel everything in fine detail makes us indifferent, save towards what we can’t obtain: sensations our soul is still too embryonic to grasp, human activities congruent with feeling things deeply, passions and emotions lost among more visible kinds of achievement.
 Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982). copy citation

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Author Fernando Pessoa
Source The Book of Disquiet
Topic achievement passion
Date 1982
Language English
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Note Translated by Richard Zenith
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