Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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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 don't believe in the landscape.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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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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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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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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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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 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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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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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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Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.