We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — 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
“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
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