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Pessoa QUOTES

  • We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”

  • Myth is the nothing that is everything.

  • Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

  • I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.



  • We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

  • Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

  • No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  • To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.


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