QUOTES by Fernando Pessoa
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"I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally."
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"We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence."
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"FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough..."
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"To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves."
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"From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I"
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"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."
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"I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world."
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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"
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"There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."
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"To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life."
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"Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way."
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"Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!..."
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"Pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation."
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"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."
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"To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success."
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"This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right."
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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."
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"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget."
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"To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)"
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"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."
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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?"
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"I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me."
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"I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost."
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"What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. From, The Book of Disquiet"
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"Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?"
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"Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps."
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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."
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"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
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"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."
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"I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else."
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"And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living."
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