This is such a great book! I'm in love with it. The Book of Disquiet will be published on 17th of August by @serpentstail. It is a collection of thoughts, feelings, aphorisms, hopes and observations written in the voices of two of Fernando Pessoa's ‘heteronyms’, the pre-1930 Vicente Guedes and the post-1930 assistant bookkeeper, Bernardo Soares. @serpentstail new edition is most complete edition available, and the only one where the texts are arranged in the order in which Pessoa actually wrote them. - "And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living." - "And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself." - "From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I." - "I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines." #FernandoPessoa, #TheBookofDisquiet #serpentstail
