I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist.
I'm the gap between what I'd like to be and what others have made me,
Or half of this gap, since there's also life...
That's me. Period.
Turn off the light, shut the door, and quit that slipper noise in the hallway.
Leave me alone in my room with the vast peace of myself.
It's a shoddy universe.

by Álvaro de CAMPOS, in "FERNANDO PESOA, FOREVER SOMEONE ELSE", selected poems, translated by Richard ZENITH, Edition Assírio & Alvim, 2008