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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Fernando Pessoa
Myth is the nothing that is everything.
Fernando Pessoa
Was it worthwhile? Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
Fernando Pessoa
To be understood is to prostitute oneself.
Fernando Pessoa
Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
Fernando Pessoa
Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
Fernando Pessoa
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.
Fernando Pessoa
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night, they're full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.
Fernando Pessoa
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
Fernando Pessoa
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
Fernando Pessoa
For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.
Fernando Pessoa
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
Fernando Pessoa
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
Fernando Pessoa
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
Fernando Pessoa
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.
Fernando Pessoa
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
Fernando Pessoa
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
Fernando Pessoa
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
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