“Solitude is the absence of company, and the lack of solitude is the…” — Fernando Pessoa

“Solitude is the absence of company, and the lack of solitude is the absence of oneself.”

Distinguishing physical isolation from the deeper loss of inner identity · The Book of Disquiet, prose fragment

About Fernando Pessoa

13 June 1888–30 November 1935

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon on 13 June 1888 and died there on 30 November 1935, leaving behind a body of work so various, unfinished, and deliberately dispersed among invented authors that it altered the possibilities of modern literature. During his lifetime he published relatively little in…

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