Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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• Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

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  One Day, Castles, Stones

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• The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

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  Unique, People, Lasts

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• Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

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  Life Is, Traveler, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

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  Reality, Found, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.276, Penguin UK

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions 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 landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

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  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

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  Time, Rivers, Clothes

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• Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

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  Vanity, Soul, Forget

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 88, 2006.

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• I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

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  Battle, Bears, Book Of Disquiet

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• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

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  Order, Self Destruction, Destruction

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 73), 2006.

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• If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

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  Solitude, Slave, Born

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

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  People, Norm, Exception

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

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  Space, Ease, Rooms

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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• Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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  Soul, Worthwhile, Ifs

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• Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

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  Essence, Contradiction, Universe

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• I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

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  Dream, World, Want

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• Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

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  Liberty, Isolation, Possibility

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 246, 1982.

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• For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

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  Grateful, Expect Nothing

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• My past is everything I failed to be.

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  Failure, Past, My Past

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• My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

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  Symphony, Soul, Sound

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• We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

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  Love Is, Self, Ideas

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

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  Art, Feels, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.357, New Directions Publishing

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• Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

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  Art, Giving, Illusion

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.307, Profile Books

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• All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

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  Dream, Grief, Self

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.194, Profile Books

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• I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

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  Missing, Looks, Knows

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• To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

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  Whole

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