Cada um de nós é varios, e muitos, é uma prolixidade de si mesmos. Por isso aquele que despreza o ambiente não é o mesmo que dele se alega ou padece. Na vasta colónia do nosso ser há gente de muitas espécies, pensando e sentindo diferentemente.
Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.
~Fernando Pessoa, Livro Do Desassossego
Nous sommes tous de lopins et d'une contexture si informe et diverse, que chaque piece, chaque momant, faict son jeu. Et se trouve autant de difference de nous à nous mesmes, que de nous à autruy.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
~Michel de Montaigne, Essais
I am sure
there are hidden depths
and abysses
in me,
where unimagined things
could break out
and sweep me
away.
Nuestras vidas son los ríos
que van a dar en la mar,
qu'es el morir
~Jorge Manrique