Books to give you hope: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Spending most of his time alone, Soares sits thinking, celebrating the “sombre majesty of splendours no one knows”. He advocates buying books never to read them. He fondly remembers an office boy who collected travel brochures, but never travelled. He looks forward to recognition after death not because he expects to achieve something, but as a “pr... See more

Soares himself is privy to the largest literary ambition there is “to feel everything in every way”.