That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — 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
“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our… — 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
“All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — 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
“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. — 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
