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Writing Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some…
- A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold…
- Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to…
- I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last…
- I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
- When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
- I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But…
- If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
- In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them…
- If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and…
- Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…
- We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work…
- I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to…
- Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently…
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