Pessoa should be read slowly, internally. Savoring the words and thinking the pauses. It is a thin blade that penetrates but that does not hurt. This collection was born by chance after listening to a poem by Fernando Pessoa, ("Elsewhere") on the radio. I was intrigued and then I started to buy some books of this author of the twentieth century. Especially reading his prose, I started to get interested in his "Livro do desassossego" (The Book of Disquiet) whose aphorisms are the source of inspiration for the works presented in this book, born from the meeting of the 'knife' with the heart ...