More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
  2. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
  3. Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
  4. They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
  5. My joy is as painful as my pain.
  6. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster a…
  7. 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…
  8. I never meant to be but a dreamer.

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