Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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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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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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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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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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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
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There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring