Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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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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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Everything is absurd.
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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.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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 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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Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
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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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Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
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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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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
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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.