Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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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 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'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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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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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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Fraternity has subtleties.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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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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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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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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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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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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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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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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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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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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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.