Quotes About Individuality

They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar, Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.

To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I've shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I've become a not entirely clear and definite individual.

Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és No mínimo que fazes. Assim em cada lago a lua toda Brilha, porque alta vive. To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

12. Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem importância, pois nada tem importância Por: Bernado Soares In: Livro do Desassossego

Those who really suffer don't form groups, don't go around in a gang. Those who suffer suffer alone.

Só o que sonhamos é o que verdadeiramente somos, porque o mais, por estar realizado, pertenece ao mundo e a toda a gente

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

É preciso que todos os que lidam comigo se convençam de que sou assim, e que exigir-me os sentimentos, aliás muito dignos, de um homem vulgar e banal, é como exigir-me que tenha olhos azuis e cabelo louro.

Each us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self. That's why the same person who scorns his surroundings is different from the person who is gladdened or made to suffer by them. In the vast colony of our being there are many different kinds of people, all thinking and feeling differently.

Existo desde el principio del mundo y, desde entonces, soy un ironista.

Who am I behind this unreality? I don't know. I must be someone. And if I do not seek to live, to act or to feel, it is — believe me — so as not to disturb the already laid-down lines of my false persona.

Yes it's me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I'm the one here in myself, it's me. (…) Whatever I was, whatever I wasn't—it's all in what I am. Whatever I wanted, whatever I didn't want—all of this has shaped me. Whatever I loved, or stopped loving—in me it's the same nostalgia (Álvaro de Campos)

Why try to be like others if you're condemned to being yourself? Why laugh if, when you laugh, even your genuine happiness is false, since it is born of forgetting who you are? Why cry if you feel it's of no use, and if you cry not because tears console you but because it grieves you that they don't?

Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly garments to write in secret.

Cada pessoa é apenas o sonho de si próprio. Eu nem isso sou.

Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene.

I took off the mask and looked in the mirror. I was the same child I was years ago. I hadn't changed at all... That's the advantage of knowing how to remove your mask. You're still the child, The past that lives on, The child. I took off the mask, and I put it back on, It's better this way. This way I'm the mask. And I return to normality as to a streetcar terminus. 11 August 1934

Ho avuto grandi ambizioni e sogni turgidi - ma i sogni li hanno avuti anche il garzone e la sartina, perché tutti sognano. Quello che distingue le persone le une dalle altre è la forza di farcela, o di lasciare che sia il destino a farla a noi.