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Famous Fernando Pessoa Quotes
“The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.”
“The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.”
“If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.”
“Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.”
“Property isn't theft: it's nothing.”
“God wills, man dreams, the work is born.”
“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
“What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.”
“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”
“Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.”
“Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.”
“Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.”
“To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.”
“The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.”
“My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.”
“Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.”
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
“To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.”
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”