Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com dec… - Fernando Pessoa

Original: Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

يا الهى.. يا إلهي. من أكون ؟ كم من ذوات أنا؟ من هو أنا؟ ما هو مذا الفاصل الموجود بيني وبيني ؟

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.