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“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 86
The Book of Disquiet
Original: É nobre ser tímido, ilustre não saber agir, grande não ter jeito para viver.

“To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A solidão desola-me; a companhia oprime-me.

“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.

“Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Multipliquei-me para me sentir.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Source: The Book of Disquietude ["Livro do Desassossego"], by Bernardo Soares (Pessoa's semi-heteronym), translated by Richard Zenith (1996), text 1

“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart.”

Fernando Pessoa

Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Fernando Pessoa

“To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”

Fernando Pessoa

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”

Fernando Pessoa

“I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet