Fernando Pessoa

The fish and Oscar Wilde die by the mouth.

Every day without joy was not yours: it was only to endure in it. As long as you live without enjoying it, you are not truly living.

Love how love loves. I don't know any other reason to love than to love you. What do you want me to tell you besides that I love you, if what I want to tell you is that I love you?

We never love anyone: we only love the idea we have of someone. What we love is our own concept, that is, ourselves.

Between life and me there is a delicate glass. No matter how clearly I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

The world belongs to those who are born to conquer it, not to those who dream they can conquer it.

The ultimate function of criticism is to fulfill the natural function of disdain, which is conducive to the good hygiene of the spirit.

To fulfill a dream, it is necessary to forget it, to distract attention from it. That is why to fulfill is to not fulfill.

I have no ambitions. Being a poet is not an ambition of mine, but my way of being alone.

The destiny is like a person and stops bothering us if we show that we don't care about what it does to us.

Literature, like any form of art, is the confession that life is not enough.

I carry with me the wounds of all the battles I have avoided.