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Thought Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
- I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to…
- 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.…
- The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I…
- I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I,…
- Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that…
- We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one…
- 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…
- I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with…
- 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…
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
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