My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.
Fernando PessoaTime, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
Fernando PessoaTo have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
Fernando PessoaAnd, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
Fernando PessoaEverything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
Fernando Pessoa