Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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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 write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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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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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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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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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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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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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.