Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

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  Destiny, Night, Invisible Hand

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

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  Men, Trouble, Fame

  "A Celebridade". 1915.

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• I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

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  Waking, Wake Up, Feels

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• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

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  Men, World, Absence

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

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• Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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  Glasses, Matter, Life Is

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 100, 1982.

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• To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

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  Dream, Soul, Would Be

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• Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Is

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

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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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  Heart, Thinking, Emotion

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

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  Life Changing, Destiny, Clothes

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 68, 1982.

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• I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

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  Dream, Tired, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.70, Profile Books

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• Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

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  Might, Longing, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

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  Fashion, Play, Degrees

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• I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

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  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books

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• There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

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  Real, People, Metaphor

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

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• There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

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  Thinking, Enough, Metaphysics

  Fernando Pessoa (2012). “A Centenary Pessoa”, p.87, Carcanet

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• Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

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  Writing, Formal

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.298, Serpent's Tail

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• Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

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  Tired, Sadness, Loss

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• I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

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  Want, Duration, Crave

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