Fernando Pessoa quotes - page 9

Life is whatever we conceive it to be. (Fernando Pessoa)
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one. View quote
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I'm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless. View quote
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. View quote
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When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. View quote
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I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. View quote
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me. View quote
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I never had anyone I could call "Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul. View quote
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My boredom with everything has numbed me. View quote
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What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. View quote
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful? (Fernando Pessoa)
We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong. View quote
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Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. View quote
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(Eat your chocolates, little girl, Eat your chocolates! Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates, And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop. Eat, dirty little girl, eat! If only I could eat chocolates with the same truth as you! But I think and, removing the silver paper that's tinfoil, I throw it all on the ground, as I've thrown out life.) View quote
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To be great, be whole; don't exaggerate Or leave out any part of you, Be complete in each thing. Put all you are Into the least of your acts. So too in each lake, with its lofty life, The whole moon shines. View quote
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. View quote
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers. View quote
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All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be. View quote
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I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. View quote
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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. View quote
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But my sadness is comforting Because it's right and natural And because it's what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice. (Fernando Pessoa)
Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates? View quote
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. View quote
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many. View quote
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Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. View quote
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