circumstances.

Whenever I've tried
to  f r e e  my life
from a set of the circumstances
that continuously  o p p r e s s  it
I've been instantly surrounded
by other circumstances of the same order

As if the inscrutable web of  c r e a t i o n
were  i r r e v o c a b l y  at odds with me

It's with my own hands
that I nearly
s t r a n g l e  myself


- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet



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