Fernando Pessoa: Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all e — Fernando Pessoa

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that — Fernando Pessoa
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who walks straight rarely falls. — Leonardo da Vinci
Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The expon — Emily Dickinson
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. — Mahatma Gandhi