"Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo."
— Fernando Pessoa

January 1, 1970

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Variant translations: — I am nothing. Never shall be anything. Cannot will to be anything. This apart, I have in me all the dreams of the world. — trans. Jonathan Griffin, in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1974), p. 111 — I am not nothing. I will never be nothing. I cannot ever want to be nothing. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. — In Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 649 — I am nothing. I shall never be anything. I cannot even wish to be anything.