Fernando Pessoa: These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with s

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin — Fernando Pessoa

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it. — Fernando Pessoa
We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are. — Fernando Pessoa
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that — Fernando Pessoa
I never meant to be but a dreamer. — Fernando Pessoa
Writing is a way of speaking without being interrupted. — Jules Renard
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, — Anton Chekhov
J'ai seulement fait ici un amas de fleurs étrangères, n'y ayant fourni du mien q — Michel de Montaigne
Baudelaire : his heavy phrase, loaded with electric fluids. — Jules Renard
Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia. — Benedictus de Spinoza
Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is see — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some men appear to have married only to prevent their wives from marrying others — Jules Renard
Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were — Algernon Charles Swinburne