Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it’s still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there’s something… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — 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
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The autumn will take everything, everything I ever thought or dreamed, everything I did or did not do, spent matches scattered at… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My generation was born into a world where those with a heart as well as a brain couldn’t find any support. 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
