Fernando Pessoa Quotes
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
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I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
