I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its…

Fernando Pessoa
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 55, 1982.
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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, … ▶
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, … ▶
The human soul is an abyss ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2006). A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, p.185, Penguin
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 118, 1982.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 55, 1982.

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