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Only Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls…
- The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
- 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…
- 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…
- I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I,…
- 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…
- But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
- Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of…
- 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…
- I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've…
- 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 realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with…
- 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…
- Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of…
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
- 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…
- Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
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