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Art lies because it's social.
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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More quotes by Fernando Pessoa
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
Fernando Pessoa
Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
Fernando Pessoa
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
Fernando Pessoa
To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
Fernando Pessoa
I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
Fernando Pessoa
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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