Quote #139

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 giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
  2. My head and the universe ache me.
  3. Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
  4. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
  5. Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
  6. Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
  7. It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
  8. I don't believe in the landscape.

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