Out of a few misunderstandings with reality we construct beliefs and hopes, and we live on these crusts, which we call bread, just like poor children who play at being happy.

Com pequenos mal-entendidos com a realidade construimos as crencas e as esperancas, e vivemos de codeas a que chamomos bolos, como as criancas pobres que brincame a ser felizes.

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Pessoa, Fernando (published as Bernardo Soares). Livro do Desassossego [The Book of Disquiet]. Attica, 1982.