#Fernando Pessoa

It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me.

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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Vague dreams, confusing lights, perplexing landscapes—that is what remains in my soul after all my journeying. I have

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True experience consists in reducing one’s contact with reality whilst at the same time intensifying one’s analysis of

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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The basest of all human needs is the need to confide, to confess. It is the soul’s need to go outside itself.

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Every day things happen in the world that can’t be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they’re mentioned

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To externalize impressions is more a way of persuading ourselves that we have them rather than actually having them.

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The art of dreaming is difficult, because it’s an art of passivity, in which we concentrate our efforts on avoiding all

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been me.

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Freedom means rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfillment of my being.

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I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

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Art is an act of isolation.

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Which of us, turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as

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A cup of coffee, a cigarette and my dreams can substitute quite well for the universe and its stars, for work, love, and

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Want little: you’ll have everything. Want nothing: you’ll be free.

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It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is not even tiredness that one feels. It is the desire to go to

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