“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — 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
“Life is what we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But thank God there's imperfection in the World, Since imperfection is a thing, And the existence of mistaken People is original, And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I also have my crochet. It dates from when I began to think. Stitch on stitch forming a whole without a whole… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Masquerades disclose the reality of souls. As long as no one sees who we are, we can tell the most intimate details… — 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
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we… — 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
“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Life, as I know it, is cataclysms and apocalypses. With each passing day I feel that much more incompetent even to trace… — 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
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — 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
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 pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what… — 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
