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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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
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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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Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
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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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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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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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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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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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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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My life is as if you've hit me with it.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.