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“The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.”

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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

“There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.”

Knows Behinds Knowing Unhappy Passing Passings Passing Through

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.”

Ifs Want Wells Kind Reason Dream

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.”

Country Cities

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“We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.”

Effort Plans Awareness Profound Vanity Futility Drought Devastated

Book:The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

“There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.”

Men Soul Bits Moral Greater Stupid Equal Intellectual Tragedy Sentiments Intensity Immoral

Book:The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.”

Want Kind Ends Facts Greatness Certainty Remembered Incapacity

Book:The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

“These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.”

Feels Writing I Can Pages Definitions Confession Semblance

Book:The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

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