Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
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Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.
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A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
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For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering.
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And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.
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The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
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A essência do universo é a contradição.
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Vem sentar-te comigo, Lídia, à beira do rio.Sossegadamente fitemos o seu curso e aprendamosQue a vida passa, e não estamos de mãos enlaçadas.(Enlacemos as mãos).....Desenlacemos as mãos, porque não vale a pena cansarmo-nos.Quer gozemos, quer não gozemos, passamos como o rio.Mais vale saber passar silenciosamenteE sem desassossegos grandes.
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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.