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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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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
Fernando Pessoa
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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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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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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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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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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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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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Fernando Pessoa
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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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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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What would happen to the world if we were human?
Fernando Pessoa