Quote #98

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
  2. Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
  3. The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
  4. Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
  5. Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
  6. I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
  7. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered alm…
  8. Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

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