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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
Fernando Pessoa -
Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
Fernando Pessoa
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
Fernando Pessoa -
All beginnings are involuntary.
Fernando Pessoa -
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
Fernando Pessoa -
Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
Fernando Pessoa
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Everything is absurd.
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My head and the universe ache me.
Fernando Pessoa -
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!
Fernando Pessoa -
I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
Fernando Pessoa -
The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
Fernando Pessoa -
Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
Fernando Pessoa
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa -
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
Fernando Pessoa