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• One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Thinking Hard, Has Beens

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.74, Profile Books

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Giving, Illusion

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

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• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

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  Imagination, Hiding, Evasion

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 163, 2006.

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• Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Solitude, Company

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 73, 2006.

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• Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hold Me, Interest, Book Of Disquiet

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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.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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• 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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• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

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  Literature, World, Enough

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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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• 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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• I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Up Early, Long, Ready

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

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Time, Long, Long Time

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

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  Heart, Mirrors, Inventor

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is good, but Wine is better.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Wine, Life Is Good, Life Is

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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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