We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If the tree is more interesting to me than the man, I’m sorrier to see the tree felled than to see the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The creation of something complete and whole, be it good or bad – and if it’s never entirely good, it’s very often… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — 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
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“crazed mother her dead child. One day, I don’t know which, I found myself in this world, having lived unfeelingly from the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We know nothing. Gone is the memory of the stories we heard as children, now so much seaweed; still to come is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The autumn will take everything, everything I ever thought or dreamed, everything I did or did not do, spent matches scattered at… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. — 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