Home » Quote » Fernando Pessoa » „Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.“ „Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.“ — Fernando Pessoa Tags:LifeLiteratureWay Related quotes „To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat— some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself.This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.“ — Fernando Pessoa „Without literature, life is hell.“ — Charles Bukowski „Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.“ — Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк „If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.“ — Oprah Winfrey