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Portugal. The Book of Disquiet is the diary that Pessoa kept for most of his life, attributing it to a modest Lisbon office worker, Bernardo Soares. With no earthly ambitions, but hungry for spiritual greatness and combining a critical mind with a wild imagination, Bernardo Soares embraced his "intranquillity", to overcome it better and, through art, go to the very edge of himself, to that frontier of our condition where mystics reach fulfilment "because they are emptied of all the emptiness of the world". He constructs for himself a personal universe that is vertiginously unreal, and yet in a sense truer than the real world. The Book of Intranquillity is considered Fernando Pessoa's masterpiece.