More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
  2. I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
  3. The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodre. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
  4. I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more,…
  5. A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
  6. I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
  7. We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.
  8. I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, dr…

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