“The fundamental fault for Romantics is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for life’s preservation and continuance; we all desire a more ideal life, complete happiness, the fulfilment of our dreams and―
It’s human to want what we need, and it’s human to desire what we don’t need but find desirable.
Imbalance occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our absence of the ideal as if we were suffering for lack of bread. The Romantic's malady then springs from the fault of wanting the moon as if it could actually be obtained.”
―Fernando Pessoa
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