Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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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.
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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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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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You breathe better when you're rich.
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What would happen to the world if we were human?
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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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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Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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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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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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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
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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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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
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Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,Não há nada mais simples.Tem só duas datas-a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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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 will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.