Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Understanding
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.