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 The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own Fernando Pessoa perfume unnatural strange The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. Fernando Pessoa real dream men We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life. Fernando Pessoa soul hurt writing I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. Fernando Pessoa banner defeat victory I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me. Fernando Pessoa missing knows looks Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. Fernando Pessoa cells change ghost Nature is the difference between the soul and God. Fernando Pessoa differences soul Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. Fernando Pessoa punctuation feet mistake Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese. Fernando Pessoa portuguese novelty Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion. Fernando Pessoa done firsts thinking Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. Fernando Pessoa evasion hiding imagination Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego Fernando Pessoa self people thinking I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. Fernando Pessoa crave duration want Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! Fernando Pessoa book-of-disquiet thinking Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Fernando Pessoa To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. Fernando Pessoa about-yourself know-yourself thinking Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. Fernando Pessoa trouble fame men Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. Fernando Pessoa purpose beautiful art 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 pain pride suffering 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 able dream world
