To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. — 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
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.] — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I take comfort in these reflections, since I can’t take comfort in life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's… — 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
“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
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There are pigs like me that wallow in their destiny, not drawing away from the banality of daily life because they’re enthralled… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And there are many whose dullness and sameness of life is not what they wanted for their life, nor the result of… — 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
“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Calm because I’m unknown, And myself because I’m calm, I want to fill my days With wanting nothing from them. For those… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us… — 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
“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
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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
And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear… — 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
“Whoever lives like me doesn’t die: he terminates, wilts, devegetates. The place where he was remains without him being there; the street… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — 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
“I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I’m proud of myself for dissenting from life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there… — 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
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