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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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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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.
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I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
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We've got a good group of guys, and the character is strong. Whether we win or lose the game, I told them the best gift you can give him is to go all out and lay it on the line. I hope the next two or three games we go through will exhibit that.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
