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One Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- 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…
- Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.
- I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
- I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last…
- Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
- To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of…
- There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
- 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…
- 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…
- We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one…
- If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and…
- 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…
- When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties…
- 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…
- Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
- Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me…
- 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…
- Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely…
- I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and…
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
- Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no…
- For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as…
- I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an…
- If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies,…
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