3 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Perfection

Fernando Pessoa quotes on perfection

90. The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

122. We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.

123. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.