More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. 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 y…
  2. Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
  3. My curiosity sister of larks.
  4. Art lies because it's social.
  5. Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
  6. Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
  7. My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
  8. Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

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