#dead academics

Sorrow is stronger than joy. One can forget joys, one never forgets sorrow. I am your suffering, that is why you can never stop loving me. Suffering alone is true, happiness isn’t.

Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me (tr. by Jeannette Howard Foster)

I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

~ Fernando Pessoa