Quote #140724
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
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Interpretation
The remark pits abstract metaphysics against immediate, bodily experience. By claiming there is “no metaphysics… like chocolates,” the speaker suggests that lived sensation—taste, pleasure, the concreteness of a sweet—can outdo or even expose the futility of grand philosophical systems. The line also carries Pessoa’s characteristic irony: it is itself a metaphysical claim made in the act of rejecting metaphysics. Read this way, it dramatizes a modernist tension between the hunger for ultimate meaning and the suspicion that meaning is best found (or only found) in transient, ordinary delights.


