Fernando Pessoa quotes - page 3

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. (Fernando Pessoa)
Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it. View quote
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. View quote
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Humanitarianism is rude. View quote
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God. View quote
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. View quote
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What is art but the denial of life? View quote
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. View quote
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. (Fernando Pessoa)
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. View quote
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. View quote
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I don't believe in the landscape. View quote
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing. View quote
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Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major. View quote
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act. View quote
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity. View quote
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To think is to destroy. View quote
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. View quote
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. (Fernando Pessoa)
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world. View quote
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All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does. View quote
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The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely, that he even pretends that it is pain the pain he really feels. View quote
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy. View quote
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