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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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• La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Vida

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “Toda la gente que conozco”, p.177, Editorial Verbum

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• I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Taste, Losing, Findings

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• Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Giving, Weakness

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• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

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  Men, Vegetables, Upset

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 266, 2006.

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• Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Talking, People, Sleepy

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.148, Profile Books

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• Better to dream than to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream

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• The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Christian, Buddhist, Men

  "The Book of Disquiet". The Book of Disquiet, 1982.

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• This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

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  Dream, World, Able

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• That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Wall, Mirrors, Diversity

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• It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Slumber, Lasts

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• But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

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  Knowing, Life Is, Book Of Disquiet

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

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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

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  Love, Halloween, Food

  "Poems of Fernando Pessoa".

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• If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

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  Writing, Feelings, Fever

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sea, Greek, Portuguese

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• All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Forgotten, Heard, Ifs

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• Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

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  Change, Cells, Ghost

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 62, 2006.

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• My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.

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  Dream, Children, Distance

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

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  Knowing, Unhappy, Passing

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 328, 2006.

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• Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

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  Moving, Air, Looks

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.293, Grove Press

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• Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

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  Dream, Book, Destiny

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

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• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

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  Soul, Lilies, Chrysanthemums

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 140, 1982.

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• I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

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  Sick, Book Of Disquiet

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

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• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 287, 2006.

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• pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Consciousness, Taxes, Unconsciousness

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