Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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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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To act is to rest.
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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?
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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.
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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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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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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.
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Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!
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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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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.