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“Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

A Factless Autobiography, number 424, trans. Richard Zenith, Penguin Classics edition
The Book of Disquiet

“There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 9
The Education of the Stoic

“Wasting time has an esthetics to it.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Perder tempo comporta uma estética

“Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 276
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Saber não ter ilusões é absolutamente necessário para se poder ter sonhos.

“The idea of any social obligation […] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A ideia de uma obrigação social qualquer [...] só essa ideia me estorva os pensamentos de um dia, e às vezes é desde a mesma véspera que me preocupo, e durmo mal, e o caso real, quando se dá, é absolutamente insignificante, não justifica nada; e o caso repete-se e eu não aprendo a aprender.

“Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet

“God wills, man dreams, the work is born.”

Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem

Poem "O Infante", verse 1.
Message
Original: Deus quer, o homem sonha, a obra nasce.

“If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 106
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Se conhecêssemos a verdade, vê-la-íamos; tudo o mais é sistema e arrabaldes.

“I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 122
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito.

“It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Foi num mar interior que o rio da minha vida findou.

“Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 260
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Manda quem não sente. Vence quem pensa só o que precisa para vencer.

“Nature is the difference between the soul and God.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 150
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A natureza é a diferença entre a alma e Deus.

“I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 96
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Nunca vou para onde há risco. tenho medo a tédio dos perigos.

“Who wants to go beyond the Bojador
Must go beyond pain.”

Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem

Poem "Mar Português", Verses 9-10
Message
Original: Quem quer passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.

“I have found out that reading is a slavish sort of dreaming. If I must dream, why not my own dreams?”

Fernando Pessoa

Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
Apontamentos pessoais ["Autobiographical Notes"] (1910)

“In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 173
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Na vida de hoje, o mundo só pertence aos estúpidos, aos insensíveis e aos agitados. O direito a viver e a triunfar conquista-se hoje quase pelos mesmos processos por que se conquista o internamento num manicómio: a incapacidade de pensar, a amoralidade e a hiperexcitação.

“I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 59
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Durmo e desdurmo.
Do outro lado de mim, lá para trás de onde jazo, o silêncio da casa toca no infinito. Oiço cair o tempo, gota a gota, e nenhuma gota que cai se ouve cair.

“Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.”

Fernando Pessoa

O amor é que é essencial.
O sexo é só um acidente.
Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192

“I'm a keeper of [[sheep.
The sheep are my thoughts. ]]I'm a keeper of sheep.
The sheep are my thoughts
And each thought a sensation.
I think with my eyes and my ears
And with my hands and feet
And with my nose and mouth.To think a flower is to see and smell it,
And to eat a fruit is to know its meaning.That is why on a hot day
When I enjoy it so much I feel sad,
And I lie down in the grass
And close my warm eyes,
Then I feel my whole body lying down in reality,
I know the truth, and I'm happy.</p”

Fernando Pessoa

Sou um guardador de rebanhos.
O rebanho é os meus pensamentos
E os meus pensamentos são todos sensações.
Penso com os olhos e com os ouvidos
E com as mãos e os pés
E com o nariz e a boca.
Pensar uma flor é vê-la e cheirá-la
E comer um fruto é saber-lhe o sentido.Por isso quando num dia de calor
Me sinto triste de gozá-lo tanto,
E me deito ao comprido na erva,
E fecho os olhos quentes,
Sinto todo o meu corpo deitado na realidade,
Sei a verdade e sou feliz.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Sheep"), IX — in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)

“The blighter that is at the end of the sea
On the pitch-black night raised itself flying;
Round the vessel it flew three times,
Three times it flew creaking,
And said, 'Who dared pierce
Into my dens that I do not reveal,
My black ceilings of the end of the world?'
And the helmsman said, trembling,
'His Majesty King John the Second!'

'Whose sails are these then which I rub against?
Whose the keels I see and hear?'
Said the blighter, and rolled three times,
Three times it rolled filthy and bulky,
'Who attempts what is solely my power,
I who abide where no one ever could see me
And who drip the fears of the depthless sea?'
And the helmsman trembled, and said,
'His Majesty King John the Second!'

Three times he raised his hands from the helm,
Three times he had them rooted on the helm,
And said after trembling three times,
'Here at the helm I am more than myself:
I am a People who wants the sea that is yours;
And more than the blighter, that my soul fears
And rolls on the darkness of the end of the world,
Orders the will, that ties me at the helm,
Of His Majesty King John the Second!'”

Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem

Poem "O Mostrengo" http://www.inverso.pt/Mensagem/MarPortugues/mostrengo.htm, lines 1–9, trans. Charles Eglington ( Listen to the poem on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Ihd-ECpYM) Message