More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
  2. All problemas are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no …
  3. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh …
  4. His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
  5. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
  6. We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
  7. There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
  8. To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

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