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Book Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the…
- I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or…
- I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But…
- My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves…
- What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys…
- what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then…
- Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
- Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take…
- 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…
- I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real…
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