“If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.” IfsMenWritingWellsLongSufferingAnswersDrunkLiver Author:Fernando Pessoa
“If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.” IfsShowsBigsSunWrittenRegretHugeBrokenKingsScenePerfectionSpotsGreekDefectsStatuesMonstrousLear Author:Fernando Pessoa
“I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.” ImpossibleAbsurdIsolatedMysticImpossible Things Author:Fernando Pessoa
“There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.” WorldSaintProphetExploits Author:Fernando Pessoa
“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.” ThinkingEndsAgeTimeLonelinessAgingFinalsGenuineBeing AloneFeeling LonelyBeing LonelyFinal Destination Author:Edward Gibbon
“Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.” TwoBookDreamDestinyTwo ThingsAccounting Author:Fernando Pessoa