“ 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 existence. ”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982). copy citation
Author | Fernando Pessoa |
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Source | The Book of Disquiet |
Topic | regret nostalgia longing |
Date | 1982 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Richard Zenith |
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