Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Giving

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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Fernando Pessoa

Art, Giving, Illusion

Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.307, Profile Books

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

Fernando Pessoa

Giving, Personality, Soul

Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.9, Profile Books

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Fernando Pessoa

Pain, Giving, Weakness

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

Fernando Pessoa

Thinking, Self, Giving

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