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

  Fernando Pessoa

  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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  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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• I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

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  Thinking, Want, Feels

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.157, Profile Books

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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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• Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

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  Looks, Pity, Retired

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 218, 1982.

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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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• Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Differences, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• Multipliquei-me para me sentir.

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  Fernando Pessoa, Walmir Ayala (2014). “Antologia poética - Fernando Pessoa”, p.75, Nova Fronteira

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• I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

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  Believe, I Believe, Virtue

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 55, 1982.

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• We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

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  Dream, Two, Childhood

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• I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

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  Dream, Real, Done

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

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• Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

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  Slave

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

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  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

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  Ego, Feelings, Mines

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 156, 2006.

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• Art lies because it's social.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Lying, Deception

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.

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  Reality, Discovery

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1998). “Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, p.28, City Lights Books

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• I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

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  Success, Want, Conditions

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 122, 2006.

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• Strength without agility is a mere mass.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Agility, Mass, Mere

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

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• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

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  Country, Cities

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 367, 2006.

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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

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  Stars, Communication, Philosophical

  "Book of Disquietude".

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• I never meant to be but a dreamer.

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  Dreamer, Meant To Be

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

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• Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

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  Lightning, Today, Intimate

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• My homeland is the portuguese language.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Language, Portuguese, Homeland

  "A Factless Autobiography" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, Lisbon, (p. 230), 2006.

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