Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting
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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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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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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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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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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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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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My life is as if you've hit me with it.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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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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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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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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All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.
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To act is to rest.