My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

The speaker describes a mind split against itself: fascinated by everything yet unable to commit to anything. The “bothersome child” image suggests an inner self that cannot be disciplined into steadiness, while the paradox “everything interests me, but nothing holds me” captures a modern condition of perpetual distraction and dissatisfaction. The final metaphor—“Siamese twins that aren't attached”—intensifies Pessoa’s recurring theme of divided identity: the self is doubled, intimate yet estranged, as if consciousness contains incompatible observers who cannot merge. The passage reads as both confession and diagnosis, turning psychological restlessness into a metaphysical problem of being more than one person inside a single life.