Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Perception
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. [...] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations? // Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.