Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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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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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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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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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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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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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What would happen to the world if we were human?
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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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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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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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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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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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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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Fraternity has subtleties.
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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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I don't believe in the landscape.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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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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Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.