Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?