More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
  2. There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
  3. Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and …
  4. I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
  5. I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
  6. We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.
  7. ... And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothi…
  8. A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

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