Fernando Pessoa quotes - page 4

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. (Fernando Pessoa)
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success. View quote
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it. View quote
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. View quote
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust. View quote
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My curiosity sister of larks. View quote
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels. View quote
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The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. View quote
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. View quote
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My homeland is the portuguese language. View quote
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The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! (Fernando Pessoa)
Fraternity has subtleties. View quote
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain. View quote
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. View quote
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities. View quote
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived. View quote
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. View quote
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Everything is absurd. View quote
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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified. View quote
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. View quote
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. (Fernando Pessoa)
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. View quote
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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. View quote
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All beginnings are involuntary. View quote
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. View quote
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