Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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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 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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Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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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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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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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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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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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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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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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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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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 believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.