“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
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the… — 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
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — 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
“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
