Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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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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Everything is absurd.
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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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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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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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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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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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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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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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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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What would happen to the world if we were human?
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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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.
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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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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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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.