Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 5

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• Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

  Fernando Pessoa

  Morning, Stupidity, Zenith

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• Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Journey, What Matters

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

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  Mean, Rays, Demand

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

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  Art, Soul, Body

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

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• Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sea, Tears, Portugal

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• My joy is as painful as my pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Joy, Painful

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 100, 2006.

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• To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Inspirational, Moon, Lakes

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• The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strange, Perfume, Unnatural

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• Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sorry, Rainy Day, Funeral

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• Better to dream than to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream

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• I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Tired, Color, Roots

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• Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Book Of Disquiet

  "The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935".

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• In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Personality, Age

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• Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

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  Men, Madness, Beast

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• The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sleep, Essence, Desire

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

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• To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Opinion, Poet, Book Of Disquiet

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• My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Shadow, Gone

  Fernando Pessoa (1974). “Selected Poems”

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• The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

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  Dream, Real, Men

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.110, 1982.

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

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  Worry, Soul, Inability

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• If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Ifs

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.106, 1982.

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• We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

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  Desire, Acting, Genius

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• I know not what tomorrow will bring.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Tomorrow, Last Words, Funny Famous Last Words

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin

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• I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Suffering, Sometimes

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.190, Profile Books

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• For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Height, Size

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• I never meant to be but a dreamer.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dreamer, Meant To Be

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

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