Fernando Pessoa

“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.”

“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”

“I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender...”

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

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

“We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.”