It's not that i have read the entire book or that i might even complete it but Pessoa's writing is like speaking to your own soul, in your own words and in full confidence. It's a weirdly comforting reading experience. It's almost as if Pessoa has distilled our fragmented, incomplete human existence and given it meaning. There are thoughts and fears and misgivings and love and confusions strewn in these pages, each revelatory and life-affirming. This book is to be devoured by the soul and read in complete solitude. My copy is underlined and marked for every passage is heart-achingly beautiful and touching. I am not one for touchy sentimentalism but Pessoa makes 'you feel with intellect and think with emotion'. How magical can that be!
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