Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Beauty

5 quotes

  1. God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, / but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

  2. To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.

  3. The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

  4. Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

  5. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

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