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• All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Forgotten, Heard, Ifs

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• Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Doubt, Gist

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

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• Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

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  Elements, Problem, Given

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.282, 1982.

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• When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

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  Suicide, Real, Gun

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• ...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Painful, Intensity, Book Of Disquiet

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Men, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.

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  Hurt, Heart, Law

  Fernando Pessoa (1974). “Selected Poems”

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• I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

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  Real, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books

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• But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

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  Perfect, Simplicity, Way

  Fernando Pessoa (1971). “Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems by his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [and] Alvaro de Campos, as well as some of his English sonnets and selections from his letters”

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• I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 182, 1982.

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

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  Victory, Defeat, Banner

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 79, 1982.

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• If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

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  Writing, Two, People

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• All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Fate, Echoes

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• Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

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  Believe, Quality, Might

  "Book of Disquietude".

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• Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

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  Dream, Writing, Voice

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

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  Differences, Soul

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

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• Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

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  Theft, Property

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.496, Penguin UK

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

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  Thinking, Process

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

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• I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul

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  Dream, Soul, Depth

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.50, Profile Books

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• What is art but the denial of life?

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  Art, Denial

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.373, New Directions Publishing

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• I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Poetic

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

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  Fear, Boredom, Risk

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 96, 2006.

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• Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

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  Sailing

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, pp. 133, 262, 1982.

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• I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

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  Sirens, Body, Tangible

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Humanitarianism is rude.

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  Rude, Humanitarianism

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

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