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Thinking 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…
- 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 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…
- But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And…
- Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
- Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
- 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.
- It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often,…
- I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
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