Fernando Pessoa: I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decora — Fernando Pessoa

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. — Fernando Pessoa
God wills, man dreams, the work is born. — Fernando Pessoa
Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu! Ter a tua alegre inconsciência, E a consciência diss — Fernando Pessoa
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical m — Fernando Pessoa
Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Que el aviso haga antes viso de recuerdo de lo que olvidava que de luz de lo que — Baltasar Gracián
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an in — Arthur Schopenhauer
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of m — Miguel de Cervantes
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the — Huxley
We were strangers to this sort of classification – ‘animists’, ‘aborigines’, etc — Mahatma Gandhi
Oppression and tyranny are the worse companions for the Hereafter. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
* Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illus — George Bernard Shaw