And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is…

Fernando Pessoa
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And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
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Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.319, … ▶
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017). The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, p.298, Serpent's Tail
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Book of Disquiet, p.74, Penguin UK
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 Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, … ▶
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distan … ▶

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