Pessoa in July on a Winnipeg prairie night. . .

 All this is the same unconsciousness diversified on faces and bodies that are different, like puppets moved by strings that end in the same fingers of the hand of one who is invisible. They stroll along with all the attitudes that define consciousness, and they are not conscious of anything, because they are not conscious of being conscious. Some are intelligent, others stupid, they are all equally stupid. Some old, others young, they are all the same age. Some men, others women, they are all of the same nonexistent sex.

-Fernando Pessoa

All of him walking in front of me at a speed equal to mine is asleep. He goes along unconsciously. He lives unconsciously. He sleeps, because we all sleep. Life is all a dream. No one knows what he does, or one knows what he wants, no one knows what he knows.

- Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa on the subject re; awareness of the senses

Noting things with the awareness of the senses rather than with the senses themselves.... The possibility of other things... And suddenly the metaphysically abrupt noise of the arrival of the office boy. I could kill him for interrupting what I was not thinking. ===============

... over the street where my distraction senses the movements of people in my eyes, and doesn't see them, from the distance of meditation. I sleep resting on my elbows, with the result that the railing hurts me, and I know about nothing with great promise. The details of the still street where many people are walking around stand out in the mental distance...-Fernando Pessoa Past historical eras are pure fantasy, since I cannot imagine what they might accomplish with me. I sleep when I dream about what doesn't exist, I shall awaken when I dream what can be. - Fernando Pessoa My spirit becomes isolated from half the material world. I investigate with my imagination. - Fernando Pessoa

The dream that promises us the impossible deprives us of it by that very fact, but the dream that promises us the possible interpolates itself into our lives and thereby points to a solution. - Fernando Pessoa

Re; Fernando Pessoa on the subject of Romanticism

The fatal man, in the last analysis, exists in the dreams of all vulgar men, and Romanticism is nothing more than the other side of our daily domination of ourselves.

There was an absorption in the stranger's song that was good for the part of us that dreams or does not achieve things. - Fernando Pessoa The raw material continues to be the same, but the form that art gives it keeps it from being the same. - Fernando Pessoa

The object really becomes something else because we make it become something else. - Fernando Pessoa

Mood is scenery. - Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa makes me so proud to be and his genius impacts me on so many levels unheard. Civilization consists in giving a thing a name that doesn't compete with the thing and then dreaming about the results. - Fernando Pessoa

We manufacture realities. - Fernando Pessoa

The autumn I have is the autumn I lost. - Fernando Pessoa