I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.
Fernando PessoaIn this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
Fernando PessoaI seek and donโt find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
Fernando PessoaI feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images Iโve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as โflesh and bloodโ. In fact, โflesh and bloodโ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcherโs marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.
Fernando Pessoa