Fernando Pessoa quotes - page 2

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. (Fernando Pessoa)
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes. View quote
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. View quote
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It's been a long time since I've been me. View quote
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. View quote
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Contradiction is the essence of the universe. View quote
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself. View quote
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. View quote
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. View quote
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races. View quote
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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. (Fernando Pessoa)
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. View quote
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Life is a thread that someone entangled. View quote
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. View quote
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Strength without agility is a mere mass. View quote
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself. View quote
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals. View quote
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My joy is as painful as my pain. View quote
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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal? View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. View quote
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never meant to be but a dreamer. View quote
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