6 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Memory

Fernando Pessoa quotes on memory

11. Here lies, in the small extreme beach, the Captain Of The End.

21. Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

57. I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

81. To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

116. Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

149. I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.