Fernando Pessoa Quotes - Page 12

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• Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Wasting Time

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.

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  Hurt, Writing, Soul

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• Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

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  Fernando Pessoa (2015). “ABC de Fernando Pessoa”, p.16, Leya

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• And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

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  Hate, Fighting, Despite

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 248, 1982.

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• To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

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  Acting, Way, Scruples

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• Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

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  Wise, Men, Action

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

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  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

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  Dream, Want, Kind

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 320, 2006.

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• My curiosity sister of larks.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Curiosity, Larks

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 219, 1982.

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• What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet

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  Dream, Children, Book

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

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  Dream, Morning, Stars

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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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  Giving, Glory, Poor

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• Fraternity has subtleties.

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  Fraternity, Subtlety

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 53, 2006.

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• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

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  Pain, Pride, Suffering

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 253, 2006.

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• To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

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  Yesterday, Feelings, Today

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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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  Heaven, Peaceful, Calm

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

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  Effort, Windmills, Slopes

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.171, 1982.

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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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  Heart, Peaceful, Calm

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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.

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  Book, Novelty, Understood

  "The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa".

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• Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.

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  Dream, Real, Civilization

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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

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  Just Being

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

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  Dream, Character, Quality

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

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  Dream, Sleep, Awake

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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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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  Another Life, Duality, Divided

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• Everything is absurd.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Absurd

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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