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Them 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…
- Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories…
- I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'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…
- Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to…
- 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…
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- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle