— An Ideal (Just Notes), Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet”
"To feel everything in all ways; to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect; not to desire much except through imagination; to suffer coquettishly; to see clearly in order to write properly; to know myself through pretending and guile; to become a naturalized citizen, a different one, but with all the appropriate documents; in sum, to use within me all sensations, peeling them down to the limit, but wrapping them all up again and putting them on the counter just as that cashier I’m watching from here is doing with the small cans of a new brand of shoe polish."
