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Oscar Wilde
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
-- from "Phrases And Philosophies For The Use Of The Young"
Far and away the most crucial aspects of Pessoa's work that I wholeheartedly agree with....
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Living, it seems to me, is a metaphysical error of matter, a mistake of inaction.
I look attentively at the traces of absorption and distraction that are erased in it.
No problem has a solution.
We use our feelings indiscriminately to resolve the problems of our intelligence, and we do it because we are tired of thinking or because we are too timid to draw conclusions, out of an absurd necessity to find support, or out of a gregarious impulse to return to others and to life.
Since we can never know all elements in a problem, we can never solve it. We lack the data necessary to attain the truth as well as the intellectual processes that would exhaust the interpretation of those data.
- Fernando Pessoa
1- Seeing is having seen.
2- the thing we suppose is alive in the supposition.
-Fernando Pessoa
Reading Pessoa and discovering things that interlock in the chaos of my mind is taking me to a place I've never been. His work is genius and I am thankful to see it the way it's meant to be treated. As a work of pure unmitigated genius is. It reminds me of the first time I read José Saramago. I feel every thought I have like inside a goldmine, the depths of a metaphysical mental state, my own sense of relapse which completes me internally.
I thought Saramago changed my life. Pessoa is in fact raising that bar to different levels.
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