5 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Awareness

Fernando Pessoa quotes on awareness

5. Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, / and clear in wanting

41. It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

93. Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

152. There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

156. Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.