Quotes About Pessoa

Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.

The love of absurdity and paradox is the animal happiness of the sad.

The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs.

back home.. the tablecloth of civilization makes us forget the already painted pine it covers! ([50], Zenith trans.)

There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia.

All ideals and all ambitions are a hysteria of prattling women posing as men.

I sleep on my elbows propped painfully on the railing and feel a great promise in knowing nothing.

The absurd lie has all the charm of the perverse with the even greater, ultimate charm of being innocent

To have occasion to…' In this space the statue of renunciation will be raised.

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Pessoa talked about there being no escape," the bear said. "He was right.

Tarado é toda pessoa normal pega em flagrante.

La guerra di quelle che Montaigne chiamava congetture infuriava, la Francia ne era insanguinata. La congettura cattolica, la congettura protestante. Come Pessoa nella poesia sul Natale, Montaigne pensava che la verità né veniva né se ne andava: semplicemente mutava l'errore, mutavano gli errori.