Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. (76)

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: life inspirational



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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: restlessness



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O resto é a vida que nos deixa, a chama que morre no nosso olhar, a púrpura gasta antes de a vestirmos, a lua que vela o nosso abandono, as estrelas que estendem o seu silêncio sobre a nossa hora de desengano. Assídua a mágoa estéril e amiga que nos aperta o peito com amor.

(Meu destino é a decadência)

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: prosa



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Isto está tudo decadente: já nem decadentes há.

Fernando Pessoa


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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: self-destruction



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What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.

Fernando Pessoa


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Io mi siedo sulla soglia e immergo il mio sguardo e il mio udito nei colori e nei suoni del paesaggio e canto piano piano, per me soltanto, dei vaghi canti che compongo nell'attesa.

Fernando Pessoa


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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: conformity normality



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This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.]

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: language disquiet



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Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: opinions philosophy thought criticism baron-of-tieve



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