“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“One of my constant preoccupations is trying to understand how it is that other people exist, how it is that there are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Whatever I think or feel inevitably turns into a form of inertia. Thought, which for other people is a compass to guide… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine’s red mirror And… — 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
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — 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
“that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of… — 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
“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
