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 PessoaAll Iโve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing Iโve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.
Fernando PessoaBut I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
Fernando PessoaWe may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work thatโs finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour whoโs crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes itโs even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. Thatโs enough for me, or it isnโt enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.
Fernando Pessoa