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People Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- 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…
- Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the…
- The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and…
- FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...
- 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…
- To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters…
- 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…
- There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
- 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…
- I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at…
- Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real…
- I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real…
- Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle