I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.


The Book of Disquiet (ed. Profile Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9781846687358

Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly...

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly...

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly...

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly...