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Fragmented inner diary in which Fernando Pessoa transforms consciousness into a space of endless self-examination. Loneliness, ennui, dreaminess, alienation, and the impossibility of a unified self become subjects of philosophical and psychological inquiry. Between dream and waking, thought and sensation, literature emerges in which the inner world proves more real than the external one, and existence itself becomes an occasion for endless reflection on the self and the world
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00:00For Pessoa, self-understanding, or perhaps the attempt to understand the self, is a freefall down a rabbit hole with
00:06a landing that kills you.
00:08And the impossibility of understanding and communicating one's internal experiences while on this freefall lends itself to a lifetime of
00:16disquiet and disorientation.

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