I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. Fernando Pessoa More Quotes by Fernando Pessoa More Quotes From Fernando Pessoa To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays. Fernando Pessoa degrees fashion play My joy is as painful as my pain. Fernando Pessoa pain painful joy I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man. Fernando Pessoa sleep men children On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. Fernando Pessoa philosophical criticism reason I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul. Fernando Pessoa ornaments flower soul I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing. Fernando Pessoa inns abyss thinking The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. Fernando Pessoa portuguese greek sea But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquiet knowing life-is My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. Fernando Pessoa umbrella stupid dream The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! Fernando Pessoa null dark house Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa vanity soul forget In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god. Fernando Pessoa different purpose soul Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquiet longing might All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness. Fernando Pessoa grief self dream As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written). Fernando Pessoa perfect home remember Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. Fernando Pessoa sailing The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. Fernando Pessoa slopes windmills effort In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. Fernando Pessoa personality age dream pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. Fernando Pessoa calm peaceful heart I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. Fernando Pessoa defeat victory awareness
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