The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa: Sometimes called “the most beautiful diary ever written” the book is a day to day account of the life of a lonely accounting clerk who lives alone named Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's 72 different pseudonyms. The book wonders aloud if “freedom is the possibility of isolation” and questions how important other people are in finding real meaning in one's own life.
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they [poems] have. By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night, they're full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.
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