Ibid., p. 249
Original: Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é o desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 73
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Para compreender, destruí-me.
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Fernando Pessoa
(1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
Variant: To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 116
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 128
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Source: báseň A Dream Within a Dream
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
Socrates
(-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Eckhart Tolle
(1948) German writer
Variant: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
(1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)
“There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.”
Stefan Zweig
(1881–1942) Austrian writer
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
Alfred Adler
(1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
“As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Source: The Divine Comedy (Božská komedie)
“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
Léon Bloy
(1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984 [Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984]