I've created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incar… - Fernando Pessoa
" "I've created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.
To create, I've destroyed myself. I've so externalized myself on the inside that I don't exist there except externally. I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
About Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet and writer, most of whose work was published posthumously. He wrote frequently under heteronyms, alter egos with developed personalities, biographies, jobs, habits, attitudes, addresses, etc., who sometimes quoted and interacted with each other and other people.
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Permanezcamos así eternamente, como la estampa de un hombre en un vitral frente a la de una mujer en otro vitral....Entre nosotros, sombras cuyos pasos suenan fríos, son de la humanidad que pasa....Murmullos de plegarias, secretos de (....) pasaran entre nosotros.....A veces el aire se puebla de (.....) de inciensos. Y nosotros siempre en los mismos vitrales, en los colores que el sol nos dará al tocarnos, en las líneas impuestas por la noche al caer...Los siglos no incidirán en nuestro silencio vítreo....Fuera de nosotros pasaran civilizaciones, estallaran revueltas, se sucederán en torbellino las fiestas, pasaran, mansos, pueblos de sólida rutina...Y nosotros, oh, amor mío irreal, tendremos siempre el mismo gesto inútil, la misma existencia falsa.
Hasta que un día, al cabo de varios siglos de imperios, la Iglesia se derrumbe y todo se acabe....
Pero nosotros, que de todo eso nada sabemos, perduraremos sin embargo, no se en que espacio, no se cómo, no se cuánto tiempo, vitrales eternos, horas de ingenuo diseño pintado por un artista cualquiera que duerme hace mucho tiempo bajo una tumba goda donde dos ángeles congelan en sus manos de mármol la idea de la muerte.
I've always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted — like all orphans — to be the object of someone's affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat.
Whatever be the case, life pains me.
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