Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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What you want if you're asking that question is a specific time in your life to come back to you, and that will never happen. You will never be 15 years old again. I could write, verbatim, another Take This To Your Grave, and you won't feel the same way. It's not going to mean anything to you because it wouldn't mean anything to me.
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When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.
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When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked like concept art for 'BoJack.' It's kind of uncanny.
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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
