Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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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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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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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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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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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My life is as if you've hit me with it.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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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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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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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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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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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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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.