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Think Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
- I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me,…
- To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
- Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.…
- My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable…
- I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or…
- 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…
- To think is to destroy.
- I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But…
- 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…
- Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
- 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…
- Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!
- To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
- I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
- I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
- 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…
- …to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
- I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to…
- Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,…
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