To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
Fernando PessoaAnd I have the others in me. Even when Iām far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when Iām all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
Fernando PessoaThere is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.
Fernando Pessoa