“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Between your body and my desire for it Stretches the chasm of you being conscious. If only I could love and possess… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness – nothing in the heart. I have faith in nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Twice in my adolescence – which I feel so remotely it seems like someone else’s story that I read or was told… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the… — 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
