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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.
Fernando Pessoa -
I don't believe in the landscape.
Fernando Pessoa
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Property isn't theft: it's nothing.
Fernando Pessoa -
Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
Fernando Pessoa -
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.
Fernando Pessoa -
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.
Fernando Pessoa -
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
Fernando Pessoa -
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
Fernando Pessoa