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 More Quotes by Fernando Pessoa More Quotes From Fernando Pessoa Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul. Fernando Pessoa soul personality giving Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. Fernando Pessoa mirrors eye men That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world. Fernando Pessoa diversity wall mirrors I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. Fernando Pessoa tedium company fiction God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. Fernando Pessoa mirrors sea sky You breathe better when you're rich. Fernando Pessoa rich breathe money I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. Fernando Pessoa poetic philosopher philosophy I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. Fernando Pessoa sirens tangible body The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe. Fernando Pessoa stars dream morning Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. Fernando Pessoa loss heart thinking If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. Fernando Pessoa writing two people I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. Fernando Pessoa childhood loss lost Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice Fernando Pessoa joyful pain painful We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong. Fernando Pessoa another-life duality divided Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me! Fernando Pessoa pieces mirrors broken FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough. Fernando Pessoa dream people firsts Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. Fernando Pessoa wrinkles faces hair Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa imagination hurt book Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. Fernando Pessoa soul cities thinking There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything. Fernando Pessoa metaphysics enough thinking
