Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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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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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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My head and the universe ache me.
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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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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.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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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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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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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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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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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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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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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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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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.