Fernando Pessoa quotes - Page : 6

" 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. " # Worry # Love # Death and Dying

" The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races. " # Beauty # Nudity # Dress

" What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. " # Desire # Love # Moon

" I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. " # Conscience # Defeat # Victory

" It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. " # Shyness # Life and Living # Friends and Friendship

" Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one. " # Gossip # Life and Living # Love

" Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. " # Vanity

" I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading? " # Books - Reading # Risk # Courage

" Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities. " # Dreams # Society # Love

" The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax. " # Taxes and Taxation # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Consciousness