Fernando Pessoa Quotes

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

“Stones in the way? I keep them all. One day I will build a castle.”

“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

“My past is everything I failed to be.”

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept — our own selves — that we love.”

“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”