Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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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.
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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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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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What is art but the denial of life?
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Art lies because it's social.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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A morte é a curva da estrada,Morrer é só não ser visto.Se escuto, eu te oiço a passadaExistir como eu existo.A terra é feita de céu.A mentira não tem ninho.Nunca ninguém se perdeu.Tudo é verdade e caminho.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.