“Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.” — 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
“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It’s not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it’s the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive… — 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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive… — 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
