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Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.”

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Portuguese poet known for his unique narrative style and rich inner world. Fernando Pessoa is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and his works are still widely studied and discussed today. more

“Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.”

Way Ends Order Loses Loss Knowing Sadness Intellectual Illusion Shame Tired Uselessness Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be.”

Thinking Feels Soul Light Dies Courses Enjoy Effort Cities Behinds Sun Bed Paper Window Edges Heavy Suits My Soul Intimate Volume Involuntary Wrapping Wrapping Paper

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”

Thinking Feels Soul Book Of Disquiet Damned Souls

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).”

Ifs Knows Home Remember Walks Perfect Written Sentences Constructs Ineffable

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.”

Parent Known Childhood Essentials Survival Patient Positively

Book:Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

“I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.”

Trying Silence Disappear Slides Wrists Curls Bracelet

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”

Events Conflict Deny Trauma Horrible Psychological Denial Dissociation Dialectics Psychological Trauma

Author:Judith Lewis Herman

“Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other.”

Thinking Feels Soul Feelings Universe Walks Cities Wonder Streets Tomorrow Just One Vague Evoke Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa

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