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Fernando Pessoa Quotes

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living Picture Quote #1

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul Picture Quote #1

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it’s still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there’s something understandable Picture Quote #1

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don’t know where it will take me, for I know nothing Picture Quote #1

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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror Picture Quote #1

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living Picture Quote #1

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it Picture Quote #1

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man Picture Quote #1

I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have Picture Quote #1

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing Picture Quote #1

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The world belongs to who doesn’t feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity Picture Quote #1

Why is art beautiful? Because it’s useless. Why is life ugly? Because it’s all ends and purposes and intentions Picture Quote #1

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that’s just another kind of dream Picture Quote #1

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it’s towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses Picture Quote #1

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing Picture Quote #1

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream Picture Quote #1

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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body Picture Quote #1

I’ve reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company Picture Quote #1

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness Picture Quote #1

There’s no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral Picture Quote #1

I’m going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics Picture Quote #1

Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven’t done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion Picture Quote #1

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I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will’s surrender. I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I’ve always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been Picture Quote #1

I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul Picture Quote #1

And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be Picture Quote #1

For a long time now I haven’t existed. I’m utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I’d done something new, or done it late. I’m beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don’t know if that will make more happy or less. I don’t know anything Picture Quote #1

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said Picture Quote #1

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And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) 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 (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it’s still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there’s something understandable (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don’t know where it will take me, for I know nothing (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) The world belongs to who doesn’t feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) Why is art beautiful? Because it’s useless. Why is life ugly? Because it’s all ends and purposes and intentions (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that’s just another kind of dream (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it’s towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I’ve reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) There’s no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I’m going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven’t done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will’s surrender. I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I’ve always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I’ve always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) For a long time now I haven’t existed. I’m utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I’d done something new, or done it late. I’m beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don’t know if that will make more happy or less. I don’t know anything (Fernando Pessoa Quotes) I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said (Fernando Pessoa Quotes)

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