4 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Sacrifice

Fernando Pessoa quotes on sacrifice

47. In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

75. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

83. To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

111. If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.