“I was twenty-two when I last wrote to you. ... How dissimilar you had become to the person I held in my memory." —G.V. Rindborg
“I was no longer sure I could trust my senses or my memory. The country seemed corrupted by a latent sadomasochistic impulse." —G.V. Rindborg
"In Mensagem, Pessoa acutely captures this longing... 'The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.'"