Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
Fernando PessoaDecadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoapg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
Fernando Pessoapg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
Fernando PessoaI’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.
Fernando PessoaLife is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.
Fernando PessoaTags: life thinking spiritual contemplation
I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
Fernando PessoaTo choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando PessoaSer poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.
Fernando PessoaWhen one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.
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