Fernando Pessoa - God Quotes

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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

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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.

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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
All else is up to God!

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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.

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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?

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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss,
but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

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The only freedom the gods grant us Is this: to submit Of our own free will to their sovereignty. We should do just that, Since only in the illusion of freedom Does freedom exist.

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It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

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