Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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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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My homeland is the portuguese language.
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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
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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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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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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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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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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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I don't believe in the landscape.
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They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.
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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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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.
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'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.