Fernando Pessoa, July 25, 1907
I have no one in whom to confide. My family understands nothing. My friends I cannot trouble with these things; I have no really intimate friends, and even were there one intimate, in world’s ways, yet he were not intimate in the way I understand intimacy. I am shy and unwilling to make known my woes. An intimate friend is one of my ideal things, one of my daydreams, yet an intimate friend is a thing I never shall have. No temperament fits me; there is no character in this world which shows a chance of approaching what I dream in an intimate friend. No more of this.
Fernando Pessoa, July 25, 1907
In Lak’ech Ala K’in: “I...myself” excerpt