Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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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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Enthusiasm is rude.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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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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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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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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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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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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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Art lies because it's social.