If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave. Fernando Pessoa More Quotes by Fernando Pessoa More Quotes From Fernando Pessoa I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see. Fernando Pessoa hurt law heart Art lies because it's social. Fernando Pessoa deception lying art Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. Fernando Pessoa east west play It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. Fernando Pessoa sea rivers And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust. Fernando Pessoa despite hate fighting I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me. Fernando Pessoa affection pain needs Writing is like paying myself a formal visit. Fernando Pessoa formal writing I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. Fernando Pessoa boredom risk fear What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful? Fernando Pessoa calm peaceful heaven 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 conditions want success Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream. Fernando Pessoa done dream wonder 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 realizing consciousness errors Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it. Fernando Pessoa elements given problem The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul. Fernando Pessoa emotional soul world I don't believe in the landscape. Fernando Pessoa landscape belief believe Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being. Fernando Pessoa cutting taken thinking The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels. Fernando Pessoa empires jewels men Faithful to the word given and the idea had. Fernando Pessoa faithful given ideas Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities. Fernando Pessoa real dream civilization I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness. Fernando Pessoa tired color roots
