Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, World, Absence

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

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• Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Liberty, Isolation, Possibility

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 246, 1982.

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• Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Literature, World, Enough

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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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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Thinking, Emotion

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

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Waking, Wake Up, Feels

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• The human soul is an abyss

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  Soul, Abyss, Humans

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.185, Penguin

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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’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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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

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• For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

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  Who I Am, Long, Wake Up

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

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  Want, Save Me

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

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• I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

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  Cheerful, Realizing

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

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• I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

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  Past, Reality, Possibility

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

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• To be understood is to prostitute oneself

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  Understood, Oneself

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

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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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• 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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• My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

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  Dream, Stupid, Umbrella

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

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• To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

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  Betrayal, Love Is, Important

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

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

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  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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