Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935)
Portuguese poet and writer, most of whose work was published posthumously.
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.
Fernando Pessoa is the slave of the intelligence but not of reason. He is an intellectual being, because in him the intelligence governs the senses...
I say it because I don't believe.
We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
What is art but the denial of life?
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
S? plural como o universo!
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
All else is up to God!
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
My head and the universe ache me.
They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.
I never meant to be but a dreamer.
And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
My curiosity sister of larks.
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.