Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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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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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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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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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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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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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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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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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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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Art lies because it's social.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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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.