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Everything is absurd.

Everything is absurd.

Fernando Pessoa
Absurd
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

Fernando Pessoa
Destiny, Duty, Fulfilled

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Fernando Pessoa
Heart, Chill, Feels
Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

Fernando Pessoa
Eye, Men, Mirrors
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 371, 2006.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Fernando Pessoa
Noble, Killing, Absurd
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 289, 1982.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

Fernando Pessoa
Writing, Language, Portuguese
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 353, 2006.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Fernando Pessoa
Mistake, Matter, Metaphysical
Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.

Fernando Pessoa
Real, Sleep, Ideas
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

Fernando Pessoa
Writing, Men, Long
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.229, 1982.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

Fernando Pessoa
Desks
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, en.wikiquote.org. 1982.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

Fernando Pessoa
Blood, Events, China
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 164, 1982.

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

Fernando Pessoa
Kings, Regret, Broken
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.250, 1982.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Fernando Pessoa
Vanity, Profound, Effort
Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

Fernando Pessoa
Dream, Real, Sleep
Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Fernando Pessoa
Passion, Character, Soul
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 413, 1982.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

Fernando Pessoa
Impossible Things, Absurd, Mystic
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.271, 1982.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Fernando Pessoa
Dream, Men, Born
Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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