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Fernando Pessoa quotes

Portuguese Author June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935

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Fernando Pessoa quote: "I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know..."
I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because..."
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. Fernando Pessoa
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. Fernando Pessoa
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. Fernando Pessoa
what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. From, The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one."
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could..."
I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of souls. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the..."
back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.) Fernando Pessoa
The nocturnal glory of being great without beinganything! The sombre majesty of splendours no oneknow? And I suddenly experience the sublime feelingof a monk in the wilderness or of a hermit in his retreat,acquainted with the substance of Christ in the sands andin the caves of withdrawal from the world. Fernando Pessoa
By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night they’re full of a meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no diference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things. 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
They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar, Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself..."
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "But I am not perfect in my way of putting things. Because I..."
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things. Because I lack the divine simplicity. Of being only what I appear to be. Fernando Pessoa

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