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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
Fernando Pessoa
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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
Fernando Pessoa -
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
Fernando Pessoa -
That's not my love; that's just your life.
Fernando Pessoa -
A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
Fernando Pessoa
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
Fernando Pessoa -
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 idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
Fernando Pessoa
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Fraternity has subtleties.
Fernando Pessoa -
I say it because I don't believe.
Fernando Pessoa
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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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Be plural like the Universe.
Fernando Pessoa -
Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
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Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
Fernando Pessoa