SOLITUDINEM ATLANTICO

Nostalghia. Moments. Memories. Faded memories. Lonliness. Solitude. Moments of solitude.

It is bliss to have such moments because the only way to become better is to know where you are and where you want to be. And to know where you are and who you are, you have to understand your past events, link memories and emotions. You can only do this by being alone with yourself.

Solitude comes from the Latin word solitudinem, which means "loneliness," but if you have moments of solitude that doesn't necessarily mean you're lonely. The word solitude carries the sense that you're enjoying being alone by choice. Alone on the beach coast of the Ocean.

Solitudinem Atlantico  is a photography project focusing on a wide view of the evolution of scenery. Starting with pristine landscapes to humanity's play with the world. A look at the harmony, growth and desertion of people to their environments. 

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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  • "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “My boredom with everything has numbed me.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Could it think, the heart would stop beating.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “And now I’m sleepy, because I think – I don’t know why – that the meaning of it all is to sleep.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Life is whatever we conceive it to be.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Everything is theater.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.” ― Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego

  • “Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. ” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • “The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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