Fernando Pessoa
“To be great, be whole.”
“Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
“The value of things is not the time they last but the intensity with which they occur.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Apart from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.”
“To be great, be whole; exclude nothing.”
“The poet is a faker who pretends so completely that he even pretends the pain he truly feels.”