Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! ✨ Th…

Fernando Pessoa
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! ✨ The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935.
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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. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.251, Grove/Atla … ▶
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
I know nothing and my heart aches ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2010). The Book of Disquiet, p.114, Profile Books
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the us … ▶
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! ✨ The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935.

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