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Been Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the…
- Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.…
- Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of…
- I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've…
- Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract…
- Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
- I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in…
- Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
- I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner…
- It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often,…
- The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
- As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived…
- All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about…
- I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be…
- Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently…
- It's been a long time since I've been me.
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