Fernando Pessoa quotes - page 7

The only hidden meaning of things Is that they have no hidden meaning. It's the strangest thing of all, Stranger than all poets' dreams And all philosophers' thoughts, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand. Yes, this is what my senses learned on their own: Things have no meaning: they have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things. (Fernando Pessoa)
And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it. View quote
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It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering. View quote
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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax. View quote
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility. View quote
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His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so. View quote
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Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking. View quote
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come! View quote
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day [...] an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being. View quote
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly. View quote
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I say it because I don't believe. (Fernando Pessoa)
They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had. View quote
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me. View quote
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! View quote
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I wasn't meant for reality, but life came and found me. View quote
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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist. View quote
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I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided. View quote
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My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. View quote
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. View quote
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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. View quote
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Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. (Fernando Pessoa)
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world. View quote
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To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect. View quote
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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. View quote
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. View quote
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