More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I…
  2. I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
  3. A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes…
  4. Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearl…
  5. The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
  6. My joy is as painful as my pain.
  7. Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream crea…
  8. Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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