Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
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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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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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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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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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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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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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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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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.
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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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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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Myth is the nothing that is everything.