The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: pain yearning hope regret longing

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Só esta liberdade nos concedem
Os deuses: submetermo-nos
Ao seu domínio por vontade nossa.
Mais vale assim fazermos
Porque só na ilusão da liberdade
A liberdade existe.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: poesia filosofia liberdade

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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget.

Fernando Pessoa

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Inutilmente parecemos grandes.
Salvo nós nada pelo mundo fora
Nos saúda a grandeza
Nem sem querer nos serve.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: poesia

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Acima da verdade estão os deuses.
A nossa ciência é falhada cópia
Da certeza com que eles
Sabem que há o Universo.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: poesia

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Que importa àquele que já nada importa
Que o um perca e outro vença,
Se a aurora raia sempre,
Se cada ano com a primavera
Aparecem as folhas
E com o outono cessam?

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: poesia epicurismo

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I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

Fernando Pessoa

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L'abîme est ma clôture, être moi n'a pas de mesure

Fernando Pessoa

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Je me suis multiplié pour me sentir, Pour me sentir, j'ai eu besoin de tout ressentir; J'ai débordé, j'ai fini par me répandre

Fernando Pessoa

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Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

Fernando Pessoa

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