Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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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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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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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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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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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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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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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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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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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What would happen to the world if we were human?
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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Não sou nada.Nunca serei nada.Não posso querer ser nada.À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
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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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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.