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So Much Rain!

So Much Rain!

By: Fernando Pessoa

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May 21, 2024
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Painting: Andrew Wyeth

It’s raining, and I suddenly feel the terrible weight of being an animal that doesn’t know what it is, dreaming its thought and emotion, withdrawn into a spatial region of being as into a hovel, satisfied by a little heat as by an eternal truth.”

― Fernando Pessoa

To be something that does not feel the weight of the rain outside, or the pain of inner emptiness… To wander with no soul, no thoughts, just pure impersonal sensation, along winding mountain roads, through valleys hidden amongst steep hills, distant, absorbed, ill-fated … To lose oneself in landscapes like paintings.

To be nothing in distance and in colours…

Each drop of rain is my failed life weeping in nature.

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