“The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“One of my constant preoccupations is trying to understand how it is that other people exist, how it is that there are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let’s act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in… — 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