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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
Fernando Pessoa
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.
Fernando Pessoa -
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
Fernando Pessoa
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
Fernando Pessoa -
Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
Fernando Pessoa -
You breathe better when you're rich.
Fernando Pessoa -
They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
Fernando Pessoa -
I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
Fernando Pessoa -
The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
Fernando Pessoa
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What is art but the denial of life?
Fernando Pessoa -
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
Fernando Pessoa -
Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
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!
Fernando Pessoa -
Life is a thread that someone entangled.
Fernando Pessoa
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These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
Fernando Pessoa -
My homeland is the portuguese language.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
Fernando Pessoa