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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sight, Smell, Sketching

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 238, 1982.

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• The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Emotional, Soul, World

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• Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Play, East, West

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Know Yourself, About Yourself

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• I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Needs, Affection

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• Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Novelty, Portuguese

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sea, Rivers

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

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  Children, Sleep, Men

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• Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Beautiful, Lying, Want

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Definitions, Pages

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Spirit, Belief, Belief In God

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 375, 1982.

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• You breathe better when you're rich.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Money, Rich, Breathe

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 95, 1982.

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• I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fiction, Tedium, Company

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.294, Grove Press

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• A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sorry, Imagination, Feelings

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• Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Done, Wonder

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

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• My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

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  Dream, Book, Taken

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• Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Book, Imagination

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• 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 that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

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  Taken, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hours, Chrysanthemums

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

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  Brain, Body, Void

  "The Education of the Stoic". Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 14-15),

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• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Jewels, Empires

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 121, 1982.

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• My boredom with everything has numbed me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Boredom

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Light, Cities

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• FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, People, Firsts

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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