Pessoa, Fernando Quotes
Top 8 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pessoa, Fernando
Pessoa, Fernando Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.
The gods grant nothing more than life,
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless.
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless.
Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.
These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.
He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.