My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (ed. 1996) - ISBN: 9781878818652