These unmeshed considerations, at the vital irony that makes them arise from a human soul, a soul that was orphaned even before the creation of the stars, at the great arguments of Destiny.

-Fernando Pessoa

Everything is complex or I am complex.

Everything is complex for people who think, and there can be no doubt that thinking makes it more complex because of its own voluptuosity. But anyone who thinks has to justify his abdication with a vast program of comprehension, expounded, like the arguments deployed by liars, with all the excessive details that reveal, when the dirt is turned over, the roots of the lie.

Everything is complex or I am complex.

But in any case, it doesn't matter because nothing matters.

-Fernando Pessoa

I don't know if others are this way, if science of life might not consist essentially in being so alien to oneself that instinctively one might achieve a distance and be able to participate in life as a stranger to consciousness...

-Fernando Pessoa

If I were a movie actor for a long time or if I had recorded my voice on gramophone records, I am sure that I would still be far away free from knowing what I am on the other side, since, like it or not, whatever of me would be recorded, I am always here within, in the country house surrounded by high walls that is my consciousness of myself.

-Fernando Pessoa

There is no mirror that shows us ourselves out of ourselves because there is no mirror that can draw us out of ourselves. Another soul would be necessary, another angle of vision or thought.

-Fernando Pessoa

That's why sometimes I get lost, futilely imagining what kind of person I might be for those who see me, what my voice might be like, what kind of figure do I leave written on the involuntary memory of others, in what way are my features, my words, my apparent life inscribed on the retina of other people's interpretation. I've never managed to see myself from the outside.

-Fernando Pessoa

We vaguely consider ourselves physical people in order to create effects in the eyes of others; we vaguely consider others mental realities, but only in the act of love or in a fight do we take real cognizance of the fact that others, as we do for ourselves, have, above all, a soul.

-Fernando Pessoa

We are all primordially accustomed to consider ourselves mental realities while we consider others physical realities.

-Fernando Pessoa

Something that's always bothered me during those rare moments of disconnection in which we take cognizance of ourselves as the individuals who are others from others is to imagine the figure I will physically, even morally, be for those who contemplate me and speak to me, either everyday or by chance.

-Fernando Pessoa

For the common man, feeling is living and thinking is knowing how to live. For me, thinking is living and feeling is nothing more than food for thought.

-Fernando Pessoa