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From Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and…
- 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…
- Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
- 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…
- That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,…
- I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me.…
- Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
- Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all…
- 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…
- Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.
- 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…
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