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• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

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  Wise, World, Enjoy

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• There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

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  Pain, Sailing, Ships

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• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

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  Hold Me, Interest, Book Of Disquiet

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• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

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  Order, Self Destruction, Destruction

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 73), 2006.

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• Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

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  Rose, Thorns, Life Is

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.305, Profile Books

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• I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

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  Taken, Rejected, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.330, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

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  Thinking, Emotion, Intellect

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• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

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  Life Changing, Destiny, Clothes

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 68, 1982.

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• We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

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  Perfection, Humanity, Imperfect

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

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• There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

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  Regret, No Regrets, Painful

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 111, 1982.

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• Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

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  Destiny, Night, Invisible Hand

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

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  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.173, 1982.

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

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  Journey, Silence, World

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

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  Solitude, Company

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 73, 2006.

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• Life is good, but Wine is better.

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  Wine, Life Is Good, Life Is

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• Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

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  Life, Art, Solitude

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Numbers: 4”

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• The human soul is an abyss

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  Soul, Abyss, Humans

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.185, Penguin

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• My past is everything I failed to be.

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  Failure, Past, My Past

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• To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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  Needs, Dependent, Commanders

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• Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

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  Literature, World, Enough

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Play, Degrees

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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.

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  Men, World, Absence

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

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• The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

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  Heart, Mirrors, Inventor

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

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  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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