I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest. [67]

You are being exploited, Soares". This made me me realize that indeed I am; but since it's the fate of everyone in this life to be exploited, my question would be: is it any worse being exploited by Senhor Vasques and his textile company than by vanity, glory, resentment, envy or the impossible?

Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Amongst the clientele of such places, which are rarely busy except on Sundays, one is as likely to encounter the eccentric as the nondescript, to find people who are but a series of parentheses in the book of life.

Solitude torments me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person distracts me from my thoughts; I dream their presence in a peculiarly abstracted way.

O que há de mais reles nos sonhos é que todos os têm.