Fernando Pessoa Short Quotes

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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

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Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.

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

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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Oh Portugal, today you are fog...
The Hour has come!

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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

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For I am the size of what I see
not my height's size.

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Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.

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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.

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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador
Must go beyond pain.

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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.

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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.

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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
are tears of Portugal!

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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.

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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.

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These are Fortunate Islands,
These are lands without a place

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Here lies, in the small extreme beach, the Captain Of The End.

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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.

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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling,
and clear in wanting

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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

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