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"The Book of Disquiet" passage: "when affection can no longer compensate for the indifference that was the dead man’s lot in life"
Pessoa switches between the first and the third person in referring to himself. Substituting my for the dead man's yields a clearer reading:
I'll have already died long ago. I'll be understood only ...
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