Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Desire
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day [...] an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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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.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.