We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our … - Fernando Pessoa

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I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

Fernando Pessoa

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

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I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

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