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I don't believe in the landscape.
— Fernando Pessoa
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
— Fernando Pessoa
I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself ...
— Fernando Pessoa
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
— Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
— Fernando Pessoa
Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.
— Fernando Pessoa
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
— Fernando Pessoa
I'm so cold, so weary in my abandonment. Go and find my Mother, O Wind.
— Fernando Pessoa
I'm liberated and lost.I feel. I shiver with fever. I'm I. — Fernando Pessoa
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
— Fernando Pessoa
I don't have enough money to be a dreamer.
— Fernando Pessoa
I seek and don't find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
— Fernando Pessoa
It's been a long time since I've been me.
— Fernando Pessoa
My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
— Fernando Pessoa
My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk.
— Fernando Pessoa
I do not evolve, I simply journey.
— Fernando Pessoa
This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.
— Fernando Pessoa
Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result.
— Fernando Pessoa
Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.
— Fernando Pessoa
Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
— Fernando Pessoa
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
— Fernando Pessoa
For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful
— Fernando Pessoa
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
— Fernando Pessoa
In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
— Fernando Pessoa
I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
— Fernando Pessoa
I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person.
— Fernando Pessoa
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
— Fernando Pessoa
From so much self-revising, I've destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I'm now my thoughts and not I
— Fernando Pessoa
Yes, everything's just fine.It's all perfectly fine.
Except for one thing: it's all screwed up. — Fernando Pessoa
To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.
— Fernando Pessoa
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
— Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
— Fernando Pessoa
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
— Fernando Pessoa
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
— Fernando Pessoa
I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.
— Pessoa, Fernando
Life is a thread that someone entangled.
— Fernando Pessoa
To think is to destroy.
— Fernando Pessoa
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
— Fernando Pessoa
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
— Fernando Pessoa
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
— Fernando Pessoa
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
— Fernando Pessoa
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
— Fernando Pessoa
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
— Fernando Pessoa
I was more of a genius in dreams than life. That is my tragedy.
— Fernando Pessoa
You breathe better when you're rich.
— Fernando Pessoa
I sleep and unsleep.
— Fernando Pessoa
I know nothing and my heart aches
— Fernando Pessoa
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
— Fernando Pessoa
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
— Fernando Pessoa
The painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
— Fernando Pessoa
The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs.
— Fernando Pessoa
I forget. I don't see. I don't think.
— Fernando Pessoa
Pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
— Fernando Pessoa
Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
— Fernando Pessoa
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
— Fernando Pessoa
Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
— Fernando Pessoa
Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
— Fernando Pessoa
To live is to not think.
— Fernando Pessoa
I take comfort in these reflections, since I can't take comfort in life.
— Fernando Pessoa
By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night they're full of a meaningless lack of it.
— Fernando Pessoa
The universe isn't mine: it's me. 139
— Fernando Pessoa
The divine fact of existing shouldn't be surrendered to the satanic fact of coexisting.
— Fernando Pessoa
By day I am nothing, by night I am I.
— Fernando Pessoa
Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
— Fernando Pessoa
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.
— Fernando Pessoa
Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel.
— Fernando Pessoa
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
— Fernando Pessoa
My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?
— Fernando Pessoa
Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.
— Pessoa, Fernando
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
— Fernando Pessoa
The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
— Fernando Pessoa
What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.
— Fernando Pessoa
Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart. — Fernando Pessoa
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
— Fernando Pessoa
Let's absurdify life, from east to west.Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — Fernando Pessoa
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
— Fernando Pessoa
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
— Fernando Pessoa
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.
— Fernando Pessoa
My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.
— Fernando Pessoa
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
— Fernando Pessoa
Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
— Fernando Pessoa
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
— Fernando Pessoa
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
— Fernando Pessoa
Only when night comes do I feel, if not happiness, at least some kind of repose which I experience as contentment
— Fernando Pessoa
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
— Fernando Pessoa
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
— Fernando Pessoa
I shall die as I have lived, surrounded by bric-a-brac, sold by weight among the postscripts added to lost things.
— Fernando Pessoa
But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?
— Fernando Pessoa
In this calm and stupid life,I never know how I should act. — Fernando Pessoa
To pretend is to know oneself.
— Fernando Pessoa
