Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Literature --which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality--seems to me the end towards which all human effort would… — 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 write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,… — 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