Fernando Pessoa: We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are. — Fernando Pessoa

We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination — Fernando Pessoa
Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams. — Fernando Pessoa
Property isn't theft: it's nothing. — Fernando Pessoa
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro — Fernando Pessoa
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivo — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would becom — Leonardo da Vinci
Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time , beneath whose influence the pyramids moulder into dust, and the flinty ro — Anonymous statement
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in whi — John Campbell Shairp
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other — Simon Dach