Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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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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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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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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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
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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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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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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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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.
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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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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Fraternity has subtleties.
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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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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.