Despite Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”

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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

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“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with it than that of seeing it, someone able to observe everything as if he were an adult traveler newly arrived today on the surface of life! If only one had not learned, from birth onwards, to…

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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony,…

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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

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“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

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“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

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pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

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“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful…

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“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So…

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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each…

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“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it…

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“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is…

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We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

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