Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

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  Hold Me, Interest, Book Of Disquiet

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• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

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  Stupid, Acceptance, Intelligent

  "The Book of Disquietude" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, (text 104), 1982.

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• To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

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  Thinking, Emotion, Intellect

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• My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

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  Dream, Thinking, Vegetables

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.50, Profile Books

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• I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

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  Journey, Silence, World

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

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• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

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  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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• Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

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  Beautiful, Art, Purpose

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

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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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• Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

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  Law, Secret, Shadow

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• I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

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  Past, Live In The Present, Knows

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 118, 1982.

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• Life is good, but Wine is better.

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  Wine, Life Is Good, Life Is

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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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• 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 I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.

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  Memories, Imagination, Personality

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• It's been a long time since I've been me.

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  Time, Long, Long Time

  Fernando Pessoa (2009). “The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935”

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• To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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  Needs, Dependent, Commanders

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• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

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  Wise, World, Enjoy

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• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

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  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.173, 1982.

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• We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

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  Perfection, Humanity, Imperfect

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

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• Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

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  Rose, Thorns, Life Is

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.305, Profile Books

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• Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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  Life, Art, Solitude

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Numbers: 4”

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• There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

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  Regret, No Regrets, Painful

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 111, 1982.

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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 other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.

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  Mistake, Believe, Self

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• There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

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  Peace, Uncertain, Quietness

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• I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

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  Taken, Rejected, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.330, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

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  Pain, Sailing, Ships

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