I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. 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 degreesfashionplay My joy is as painful as my pain. Fernando Pessoa painpainfuljoy 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 sleepmenchildren 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 philosophicalcriticismreason 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 ornamentsflowersoul 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 innsabyssthinking The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. Fernando Pessoa portuguesegreeksea But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquietknowinglife-is My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. Fernando Pessoa umbrellastupiddream 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 nulldarkhouse Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa vanitysoulforget In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god. Fernando Pessoa differentpurposesoul Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquietlongingmight 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 griefselfdream 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 perfecthomeremember Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. Fernando Pessoa sailing The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. Fernando Pessoa slopeswindmillseffort 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 personalityagedream pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. Fernando Pessoa calmpeacefulheart I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. Fernando Pessoa defeatvictoryawareness
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