Book Of Disquiet Quotes - Page 3

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Sailing, Ships

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• Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Is, Traveler

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Real, Done

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

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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Halloween, Food

  "Poems of Fernando Pessoa".

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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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Children, Book

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