“it seems that what’s artificial has become natural, and what’s natural is now strange. Or rather, it’s not that what’s artificial has… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Whether we like it or not, we are slaves to the hour in all its forms and colours, we are the subjects… — 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
“I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it’s not because I know what it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“VII From my village I see as much of the universe as can be seen from the earth, And so my village… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being… — 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