Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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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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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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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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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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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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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.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
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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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Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
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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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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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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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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.