Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. Fernando Pessoa More Quotes by Fernando Pessoa More Quotes From Fernando Pessoa My boredom with everything has numbed me. Fernando Pessoa boredom Life is a thread that someone entangled. Fernando Pessoa thread life-is I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. Fernando Pessoa mystic impossible-things absurd If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue. Fernando Pessoa regret broken kings If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. Fernando Pessoa writing men long The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man. Fernando Pessoa buddhist christian men The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified. Fernando Pessoa ends lows Strength without agility is a mere mass. Fernando Pessoa agility mere mass All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does. Fernando Pessoa vices dark doe Liberty is the possibility of isolation. Fernando Pessoa possibility isolation liberty A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths? Fernando Pessoa imagination sorry feelings Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. Fernando Pessoa want beautiful lying When I write, I solemnly visit myself. Fernando Pessoa writing Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way. Fernando Pessoa sake dream looks Contradiction is the essence of the universe. Fernando Pessoa contradiction universe essence Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not. Fernando Pessoa ask-me should answers At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root. Fernando Pessoa root then first strikes Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. Fernando Pessoa like look valentines-day earth All is worthwhile if the soul is not small. Fernando Pessoa small worthwhile soul
