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Famous Fernando Pessoa Quotes
“pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.”
“pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.”
“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”
“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.”
“The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
“Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!”
“I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.”
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”
“Life is whatever we conceive it to be.”
“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.”
“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”
“My boredom with everything has numbed me.”
“I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.”
“I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.”