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Ends Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
- Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to…
- I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
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