“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it’s nothing: it’s only the vision of the human animal… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To dream, for example, that I’m simultaneously, separately, severally the man and the woman on a stroll that a man and woman… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“How is it done? By not doing. By dreaming insistently. By performing our daily duties but living, simultaneously, in the imagination. Travelling… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only… — 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
“I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill… — 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
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than dreaming of the front door to the office?” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't… — 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