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
The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It’s not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it’s the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — 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
