Quotes About Self

Lezten Endes bleibt von diesem Tage das, was vom gestrigen blieb und vom morgigen bleiben wird: die unersättliche und nicht zählbare Begierde, immer derselbe und ein anderer zu sein.

Does the peace I feel when I see you belong to you or to me?

Me detengo a orillas de mí y me asomo… Abismo… Y en ese abismo el Universo.

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

I am the interval between what I am and what I am not, between what I dream and what life has made of me, the abstract, carnal halfway house between things, like myself, that are nothing.

Posso immaginare tutto perché non sono niente. Se fossi qualcosa non potrei immaginare.

My God, My God, who am I watching? How many am I? Who is I? What is this gap between me and myself?

Calm because I'm unknown, And myself because I'm calm, I want to fill my days With wanting nothing from them. For those whom wealth touches, Gold irritates the skin. For those on whom fame blows, Life fogs over. On those for whom happiness Is their sun, night will fall. But those who hope for nothing Are glad for whatever comes.

We never disembark from ourselves. We never attain another existence unless we other ourselves by actively, vividly imagining who we are. The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them. None of the four corners of the world is the one that interests me and that I can truly see; it's the fifth corner that I travel in, and it belongs to me.

Nós nunca nos realizamos. Somos dois abismos – um poço fitando o Céu.

Tener opiniones es estar vendido a uno mismo. No tener opiniones es existir. Tener todas las opiniones es ser poeta.

Por isso, alheio, vou lendo como páginas, meu ser

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

Viajar? Para viajar basta existir. Vou de dia para dia, como de estação para estação, no comboio do meu corpo (...) A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos, não é o que vemos, senão o que somos

I have never been anything more than a mere vestige, a simulacrum of myself.

Art frees us, illusorily, from the squalor of being. While feeling the wrongs and sufferings endured by Hamlet, prince of Denmark, we don't feel our own, which are vile because they're ours and vile because they're vile.

In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our own idea. The masturbator may be abject, but in point of fact he's the perfect logical expression of the lover. He's the only one who doesn't feign and doesn't fool himself.

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un Momento Culminante, mataron al maestro que íbamos a ser. Y aquel secreto que él guardaba, para que nos convirtiéramos en él, ese secreto se perdió.

The universe isn't mine: it's me. 139

El amor requiere posesión, mas no sabe qué es la posesión. Si yo no soy mío, ¿cómo puedo ser tuyo, o tú mía? Si no poseo mi propio ser, ¿cómo podría poseer un ser ajeno? Si ya soy diferente de aquél de quien soy idéntico, ¿cómo seré idéntico de aquél de quien ya soy diferente? El amor es un misticismo que exige practicarse, una imposibilidad que es sólo soñada como debiendo ser posible.

Tomorrow doesn't exist. This moment Alone is mine, and I am only who Exists in this instant, which might be the last Of the self I pretend to be. 16 March 1933

Inutilmente parecemos grandes. Salvo nós nada pelo mundo fora Nos saúda a grandeza Nem sem querer nos serve.

We do not possess our sensations, and through them we cannot possess ourselves.

We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love.