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I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . . T... See more
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act
Because I’m the size of what I see And not the size of my stature.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
respuesta creativa de Pessoa a un mundo
Pablo Javier Pérez López • Poesía, ontología y tragedia en Fernando Pessoa
write words as if they were the soul’s salvation,
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
"omnia fui, nihil expedit — fui tudo, nada vale a pena."
Bernardo Soares • Livro do Desassossego (Portuguese Edition)
Pessoa composed “on loose sheets, in notebooks, on stationery from the firms where he worked, on the backs of letters, on envelopes, or on whatever scrap of paper happened to be in reach.”