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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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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
Fernando Pessoa -
Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
Fernando Pessoa -
There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
Fernando Pessoa -
Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.
Fernando Pessoa -
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
Fernando Pessoa -
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
Fernando Pessoa -
A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
Fernando Pessoa -
Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
Fernando Pessoa -
My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
Fernando Pessoa -
To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Fernando Pessoa -
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
Fernando Pessoa -
Enthusiasm is rude.
Fernando Pessoa -
It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
Fernando Pessoa -
And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
Fernando Pessoa -
Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Fernando Pessoa -
O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
Fernando Pessoa
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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
Fernando Pessoa -
The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
Fernando Pessoa -
What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.
Fernando Pessoa