Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 7

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Want, Feels

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

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Two, Childhood

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Slave

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Real, Done

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

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Discovery

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

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Ego, Feelings, Mines

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

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Success, Want, Conditions

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

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Country, Cities

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stars, Communication, Philosophical

  "Book of Disquietude".

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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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• I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Loss, Childhood, Lost

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.239, Penguin UK

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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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  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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• In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Different, Purpose

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

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

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