Quote #138
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
More from Fernando Pessoa
- Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
- 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…
- Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
- My head and the universe ache me.
- It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
- Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
- I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
- Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.