Daily Painting

Júlio Pomar
LUSITÂNIA NO BAIRRO LATINO (1985)
[LUSITANIA IN THE LATIN QUARTER]

FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet

My past is everything I failed to be.

Reading

Fernando Pessoa
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Education of the Stoic

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Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life that wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.

FERNANDO PESSOA
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfactions with the world’s existence.

All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

FERNANDO PASSOA

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I’ve never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

FERNANDO PESSOA

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

FERNANDO PESSOA

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

FERNANDO PESSOA

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

FERNANDO PESSOA

We worship perfection because we can’t have it; if we had it we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

FERNANDO PESSOA

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

FERNANDO PESSOA

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it’s all evaporating. I constantly feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And the show I’m attending is myself.