Quote #70

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.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
  2. 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…
  3. My life is as if you've hit me with it.
  4. I never meant to be but a dreamer.
  5. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
  6. There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
  7. Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
  8. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

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