The Book of Disquiet
Fernando PessoaSözler ve Alıntılar
I’m sure that even if I held the world in my hand, I’d exchange it all for a tram ticket back to Rua dos Douradores.
Sayfa 3 - Serpent’s Tail, 2010
[…] for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.
Sayfa 3 - Serpent’s Tail, 2010
Ne yazık ki sessiz odamda yazıyorum, her zaman olduğum gibi ve her zaman olacağım gibi yalnız. Ve acaba önemsiz gibi görünen sesim, binlerce sesin özünü, binlerce yaşamın kendini ifade etme özlemini bünyesinde barındırıyor olabilir mi?
The other day a friend, who’s a partner in a prosperous company that does business throughout the country and who considers my salary to be distinctly on the low side, said to me: ‘You’re being exploited, Soares.’ This made me realize that indeed I am; but since it’s the fate of everyone in this life to be exploited, my question would be: is it any worse being exploited by Senhor Vasques and his textile company than by vanity, glory, resentment, envy or the impossible?
Some, the prophets and saints who walk this vacuous world, are exploited by God himself.
Sayfa 2 - Serpent’s Tail, 2010
All life is a dream. No one knows what he's doing, no one knows what he wants, no one knows what he knows. We sleep our lives, eternal children of Destiny.
Arkadaşlar: bir tane olsun yok. Benim için bir şeyler hissettiklerini sanan ve üstümden tren geçip de cenaze yağmurlu bir günde olsa üzülebilecek birkaç tanıdıktan başka bir şey değil.
I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love or perhaps too, because even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might just as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.
Sayfa 3 - Serpent’s Tail, 2010