“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“FIRST WATCHER Why do people die?
SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...”
― The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...”
― The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego”
― The Book of Disquietude
― The Book of Disquietude
“Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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