Quotes from Fernando Pessoa

Një njeri, në zotëroftë dijen e vërtetë mund ta shijojë krejt spektaklin e botës ulun mbi një karrige, pa ditë me lexue, pa folë me askënd, veç me anë të përdorimit të shqisave dhe faktit që shpirti të mos dijë me qenë i trishtë.

life real. As all of us know, even when we don't know what we're doing, life is absolutely unreal in its directly real form; the country, the city and our ideas are all absolutely fictitious things, the offspring of our complex sensation of our own selves. Impressions are incommunicable unless we make them literary.

Envidio —pero no sé si envidio de veras— a aquéllos de quienes se puede escribir una biografía, o que pueden escribir su propia biografía. En estas expresiones sin continuidad ni deseo alguno de continuidad, narro con indiferencia mi autobiografía sin hechos, mi historia sin vida. Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.

A alma humana é vítima tão inevitável da dor

Te quiero solo como un sueño.

I CARRY inside my heart, As in a chest too full to shut, All the places where I have been, All the ports at which I have called, All the sights I've seen through windows and portholes And from quarterdecks, dreaming. And all of this, which is so much, is nothing next to what I want. — Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems . (Grove Press; First Printing edition April 1, 1999)

Não sei que grande tristeza Me fez só gostar de ti Quando já tinha a certeza De te amar porque te vi.

Özgür doÄŸduÄŸun, kendi kendine yetebilen, insanlardan uzak durabilen biri olduÄŸun halde, zavall?n?n teki olduÄŸun için insanlarla ya??yorsan, yaz?klar olsun sana. Ä°ÅŸte bu, nereye gidersen git, kendinde birlikte ta??yaca??n trajedindir.

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

Nu ÅŸtiu ce înseamn? s? m? cunosc.Nu m? v?d pe dinl?untru.Nu cred c? eu exist undeva înd?r?tul meu.

To realize that who we are is not ours to know, that what we think or feel is always a translation, that what we want is not what we wanted, nor perhaps what anyone wanted – to realize all this at every moment, to feel all this in every feeling – isn't this to be foreign in one's own soul, exiled in one's own sensations?

I don't know why, but I'm troubled by this objective network of wide and narrow streets, this succession of street lamps, trees, lighted and dark windows, opened and closed gates – heterogeneously nocturnal shapes which my near-sightedness makes even hazier, until they become subjectively monstrous, unintelligible and unreal.

Who is not revolted by the idea of our soul's carnal origin, of the corporeal turbulence out of which our flesh is born, and which, however beautiful, is soiled by its origin, its birth?

Shpirti im është një orkestër e mistershme; nuk e di cilat vegla luan dhe fryn brenda meje: korda dhe harpa, lodra dhe daulle. E njoh veten si simfoni.

All it takes to be complete is to exist.

Não me digas que me queres Pois não sei acreditar. No mundo há muitas mulheres Mas mentem todas a par.

Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that's one of the rules of the game.

Não o prazer, não a glória, não o poder: a liberdade, unicamente a liberdade

Their way of dreaming is a garment that conceals, not a dream that creates.

Ölüm bir kurtuluÅŸtur, çünkü ölen insan?n kimseye ihtiyac? kalmaz. Zavall? köle zorla kurtulmuÅŸ olur zevklerinden, ac?lar?ndan, arzulanan ve bitmek bilmeyen hayattan. Kral vazgeçemediÄŸi mülklerinden kurtulur. Zaferden zafere koÅŸanlar, hayatlar?n? adad?klar? zaferlerden kurtulur.

And since we wish to be sterile, let us also be chaste, for there is nothing more shameful and ignoble than to forswear what in Nature is fertile while holding on to the part we like in what we've forsworn. There are no halfway noble attitudes.

everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.

Há tres maneiras de ser situacionista, isto é, de ser partidario de qualquer situação política. A primeira é a conformidade por dotrina; a segunda a conformidade por aceitação; a terceira a conformidade por não-oposição. Deixo de parte uma das mais vulgares - a conformidade por vantagem [...]. A conformidade por indiferença vale por adesão por só não ser hostilização.

Te estoy esperando, como distracción, en nuestro cuarto de dos puertas y te sueño llegando a mi sueño y en mi sueño entras hasta mí por la puerta de la derecha; si al entrar lo hicieras por la puerta de la izquierda, habría ya un contraste entre mi sueño y tú.