To be understood is to prostitute oneself

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

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

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

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

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