photograph by my wife Maria da Nazaré, at the London Eye
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"I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

I do not know which particular magnificent details I would choose to define the essence of my spirit. Doubtless I love the decorative because I sense in it something that resembles the substance of my own soul."

by Fernando PESSOA, in "The Book of Disquiet"

(photo 1st edition, 2011; 2nd edition, 2016)