Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
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I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
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Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.
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I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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Property isn't theft: it's nothing.
