Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 13

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• Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

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  Destiny, Duty, Fulfilled

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• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

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  Noble, Killing, Absurd

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 289, 1982.

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• Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

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  Eye, Men, Mirrors

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 371, 2006.

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• The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

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  Heart, Chill, Feels

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

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• I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

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  Writing, Language, Portuguese

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 353, 2006.

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• To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

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  Mistake, Matter, Metaphysical

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

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• I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

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  Blood, Events, China

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 164, 1982.

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• The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.

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  Real, Sleep, Ideas

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

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• I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

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  Desks

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, en.wikiquote.org. 1982.

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• If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

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  Writing, Men, Long

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.229, 1982.

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• And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

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  Dream, Want, Kind

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 320, 2006.

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• God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

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  Dream, Men, Born

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

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• To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

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  Passion, Character, Soul

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 413, 1982.

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• Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

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  Dream, Real, Sleep

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

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• I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

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  Impossible Things, Absurd, Mystic

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.271, 1982.

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• If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

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  Kings, Regret, Broken

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.250, 1982.

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• We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

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  Vanity, Profound, Effort

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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