Transient.

allmyselves:

“I have the most conflicting opinions, the most divergent beliefs. For it’s never I who thinks, speaks or acts. It’s always one of my dreams, which I momentarily embody, that thinks, speaks and acts for me. I open my mouth, but it’s I-another who speaks.”

—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

finita-la-commedia:

“Whatever I was, whatever I wasn’t — it’s all in what I am. Whatever I wanted, whatever I didn’t want — all of this has shaped me. Whatever I loved, or stopped loving — in me it’s the same nostalgia.”

— Fernando Pessoa (1880-1935), from “Oxfordshire” (6 August 1931)

theclassicsreader:

“What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.

With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.

It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.”

- Anne Carson, from “Wildly Constant”