More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
  2. The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that …
  3. In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
  4. The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
  5. For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
  6. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would su…
  7. To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
  8. I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

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