More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
  2. Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
  3. I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
  4. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
  5. Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
  6. And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true. // And when lying starts…
  7. For the moment being, given that we live in society, the only duty of superior men is to reduce to a minimum their participation in the tri…
  8. My head and the universe ache me.

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