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Fernando Pessoa quotes

Portuguese Author June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935

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Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way. Fernando Pessoa
pg. 7 "Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of..."
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life."
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. Fernando Pessoa
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It’s just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices – a collective mishmash of life. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is -..."
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? Fernando Pessoa
We, all who live, have. A life that is lived. And another life that is thought, And the only life we have. It's the one that is divided. In right or wrong. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me."
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I asked for very little from life, and even this little was..."
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the..."
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play..."
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple..."
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Life is whatever we conceive it to be."
Life is whatever we conceive it to be. Fernando Pessoa

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