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Dream Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams,…
- One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves…
- My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
- 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…
- And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
- Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
- My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable…
- 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…
- The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I…
- Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.
- 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…
- 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…
- We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of…
- In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from…
- 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…
- My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing…
- FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...
- In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them…
- I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the…
- This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're…
- Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
- 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…
- When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability…
- 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…
- Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having…
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