Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In Bernardo Soares – a prose writer who poetizes, a dreamer who thinks, a mystic who doesn’t believe, a decadent who doesn’t… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Literature --which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality--seems to me the end towards which all human effort would… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
