Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Self
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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, / and clear in wanting
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
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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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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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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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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.