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Fernando Pessoa quotes

Portuguese Author June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935

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Fernando Pessoa quote: "to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellec?"
to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellec? Fernando Pessoa
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that..."
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be..."
I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. Fernando Pessoa
... Queen, goodbye forever! Your wings were sunbeams, and my feet are clay. I'll never be well if I don't get to bed. I never was well unless I was stretched out across the universe. Fernando Pessoa
A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for having felt regret today – huge confusions with no point and no truth, huge confusions… Fernando Pessoa
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a... Fernando Pessoa
I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it’s nothing: it’s only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and all the other illusions that constitute the civilization in which I feel. Where can the living be? Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is..."
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. Fernando Pessoa
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. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I crave time in all its duration, and Iwant to be myself..."
I crave time in all its duration, and Iwant to be myself unconditionally. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to..."
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands..."
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Some are exploited by God himself, and they are prophets and..."
Some are exploited by God himself, and they are prophets and saints in this vacuous world. Fernando Pessoa
I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. Fernando Pessoa

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