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| Almada Negreiros painting of Fernando Pessoa |
- " If the heart could think it would stop beating."
- "I look at myself but I'm missing me. I know myself. It's not me."
- "If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave."
- "My soul is the present shadow of a presence gone."
- "To love is to tire of being alone. It's therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves."
- "The man is the size of his dream."
- "Literature exists because the world isn't enough."
- "I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing."
- "Does the peace I feel when I see you, belong to you or to me?"
- "As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence."
- "Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power."
- "Each person is only the dream of themselves."
- "To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent."
- "In each corner of my soul there's an altar to a different god."
- "The whole life is a war and the battle the synthesis of life."
- "The universe isn't mine. It's me."
- "I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me through hills and valley. I hope my soul never finds me."
- "All it takes to be complete is to exist."
- "But if God is the flowers and trees and hills and sun and moon. Then why should I call him God? And not flowers and trees and hills and sun and moon?"
- "I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room."
- Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, writer and philosopher