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“And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

Fernando Pessoa

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.”

Fernando Pessoa

“I know nothing and my heart aches”

Fernando Pessoa

“Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
Original: Benditos os que não confiam a vida a ninguém.
Source: The Book of Disquiet

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Every gesture is a revolutionary act.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 274
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Todo o gesto é um acto revolucionário.

“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”

Fernando Pessoa

Poem "D. Sebastião", verses 8-10
Message
Original: Sem a loucura que é o homem
Mais que a besta sadia,
Cadáver adiado que procria?
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 14-15
Source: The Education of the Stoic

“I am the escaped one,
After I was born
They locked me up inside me
But I left.
My soul seeks me,
Through hills and valley,
I hope my soul
Never finds me.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!”

Fernando Pessoa

Source: Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

“Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

A Factless Autobiography, number 21, tr. by Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)
Source: The Book of Disquiet

“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“But my sadness is comforting
Because it’s right and natural
And because it’s what the soul should feel
When it already thinks it exists
And the hand pick flowers
And the soul takes no notice.”

Fernando Pessoa

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I Know, I Alone

I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
With no faith nor law
Nor melody nor thought.

Only I, only I
And none of this can I say
Because feeling is like the sky -
Seen, nothing in it to see.”

Fernando Pessoa