"I grow irritated by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Their human life is full of all that would constitute a series of anxieties for a truly sensitive nature. But, as their true life is vegetal, what they suffer passes through them without touching their soul, and they live a life comparable to that of a man with a toothache who could have been given a fortune - the authentic fortune of being alive without being conscious of it, the greatest gift the gods give us because it is the gift that makes us resemble them: like them, although in a different way, beyond happiness and pain.
That's why, in spite of everything, I love them all.
My dear vegetables!"
Fernando Pessoa as Bernando Soares
