I would like to live different lives in distant lands. I would like to die another person beneath unknown flags. I would like to be acclaimed emperor in another time (a time better simply because it is not today), that appears to me in shimmering colours, amongst unknown sphinxes. I want anything that makes the person I am seem ridiculous just because it does make what I am seem ridiculous. I want, I want... But there is always the sun when the sun shines and the night when the night falls. There's always grief when grief affects us and dreams when dreams cradle us. There is always what there is and never what there should be, not because it's better or worse, but because it's other. There's always...
Fernano Pessoa - The Book of Disquet, 2.11.1933
