All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All th…

Fernando Pessoa
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All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, … ▶
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited
This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quic … ▶
But 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 Pessoa (1971). Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems b … ▶

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

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