Quote #7

Without madness what is man / more than the healthy beast, / corpse adjourned that procreates?

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!
  2. God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
  3. Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, / and clear in wanting
  4. The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire undid itself. / Lord, Portugal remains to be accomplished!
  5. I fulfilled my duty against destiny. / Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
  6. The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: / the endless sea is portuguese.
  7. All beginnings are unvoluntary.
  8. Here lies, in the small extreme beach, the Captain Of The End.

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