Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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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.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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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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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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My head and the universe ache me.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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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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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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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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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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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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Myth is the nothing that is everything.