Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“enjoying a tranquillity in which I won’t write the works I don’t write now, and to keep on not writing them I’ll… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything in life is the degeneration of something else. Perhaps existence is always an approximation – an advent, or surroundings. Just… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — 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
“My whole life has been a battle lost on the map. Cowardice didn't even make it to the battlefield, where perhaps it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul,… — 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
