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Own Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
- 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,…
- Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as…
- For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the…
- 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…
- The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
- We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
- If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine…
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov