Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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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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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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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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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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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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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.