Quote #78
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 fact. To think is not to know how to be.
More from Fernando Pessoa
- To act is to rest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
- I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
- Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.