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Fernando Pessoa quotes about peace

Portuguese Author June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935

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Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty. In the future I'll be living quietly in a little house somewhere, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will use different excuses to the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Fernando Pessoa
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by... 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
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Never again, would there be peace in the Castle of the Last..."
Never again, would there be peace in the Castle of the Last Souls. Fernando Pessoa
What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful? Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "There's an non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness"
There's an non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness Fernando Pessoa

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