>"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.">"This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek out own pleasure via our own idea. The masturbator may be abject, but in point of fact he’s the perfect logical expression of the lover. He’s the only one who doesn’t feign and doesn’t fool himself.">"[Pessoa] died in his mid-forties, alcoholic and almost certainly a virgin, leaving behind a wooden chest filled with thousands of pages of disordered manuscripts, scrawled on pieces of paper picked up at random"What was his problem desu?
>"And his sexual self? Pessoa claimed not to be very interested in sex, and we know, from his personal notes, that he almost certainly died a virgin. All the more remarkable, then, that he wrote and published not only the aforementioned "Antinous" but also the lascivious "Epithalamium," in which a bride looks forward to being deflowered by the groom on her wedding night. These were not short poems; each ran to more than three hundred lines of verse."WTF
>>24928000What problem? This becomes very intuitive when you're in a relationship.
>>24928000>In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another bodyVirgin confirmed. In fact both parties seek each other's pleasure. What distinguishes sex from masturbation is that somebody else does it for you.
>>24928019>in which a bride looks forward to being deflowered by the groom on her wedding night. These were not short poems; each ran to more than three hundred lines of verse."He was trans, Fernando Pessoa?
>>24928035What do you mean?
>>24928019>we know...almost certainlyso do we know or dont we???
>>24928000Narcissism
>>24928067ESL syntax, get the fuck out.
>>24928000This is the sort of thing you write out of lonely frustration and then happen across it a few years later to realize how dumb it is
>>24928294>complains about ESLs on a thread about an ESL poet
>>24928449>on a threadShut the fuck up Pedro this is America
>>24928000Sounds about right, that's the opinion I came to after my first marriage burned out. Mutual masturbation with an attractive girl is a lot of fun though, actually having sex is repulsive.
>>24928294>doesn't recognize a Sopranos referenceDumb newfag
>>24928053Sex is also about pleasuring the other, for real men at least. That’s a big difference to masturbation. Stupid point.
>>24928461>actually having sex is repulsiveHaving sex with a clean, beautiful woman is not repulsive at all. Not that you would know, of course.
