I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.