Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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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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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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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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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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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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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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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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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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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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Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
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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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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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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.
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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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Property isn't theft: it's nothing.