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Fernando Pessoa - From the Art category:
What is art but the denial of life? (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Art category:
Art consists in making others feel what we feel. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Beauty category:
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Beginning category:
All beginnings are involuntary. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Belief category:
Myth is the nothing that is everything. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Belief category:
I don't believe in the landscape. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Books category:
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Fraternity has subtleties. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Change category:
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Confession category:
These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Curiosity category:
My curiosity sister of larks. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Deception category:
Art lies because it's social. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Destiny category:
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Dreams category:
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Drunkenness category:
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Eccentricity category:
Without madness what is man / more than the healthy beast, / corpse adjourned that procreates? (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Ego category:
It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Ego category:
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Enthusiasm category:
Enthusiasm is rude. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Exhaustion category:
I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Fame category:
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Fear category:
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Freedom category:
Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Happiness category:
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables! (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Humanity category:
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Ideas category:
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Immortality category:
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Individuality category:
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Indolence category:
To act is to rest. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Journey category:
I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Joy category:
My joy is as painful as my pain. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Language category:
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Life category:
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Life category:
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Mirrors category:
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss,
but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Mirrors category:
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Money category:
You breathe better when you're rich. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Perfection category:
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Poetry category:
The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Seeing category:
For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Senses category:
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Sleep category:
I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Solitude category:
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Solitude category:
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Success category:
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Suffering category:
-The Book of Disquiet...
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Suffering category:
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Symphony category:
-The Book of Disquiet...
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Thinking category:
To think is to destroy. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Time category:
The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Time category:
Wasting time has an esthetics to it. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Travel category:
I'd like to be in the country so that I could like being in the city. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Understanding category:
Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Understanding category:
In order to understand, I destroyed myself. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Universe category:
Contradiction is the essence of the universe. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Vanity category:
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Words category:
Faithful to the word given and the idea had. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Work category:
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Writing category:
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. (Fernando Pessoa)
Fernando Pessoa - From the Writing category:
When I write, I solemnly visit myself. (Fernando Pessoa)
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