Fernando Pessoa quotes

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not …There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Life Pain

In order to understand, I destroyed …In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Understanding Short

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring …Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Short Reading Literature Life

My past is everything I failed to …My past is everything I failed to be.

Failure Past

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and …My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

Soul Music

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in …I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Dreams

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. …To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

Poetry Truth

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with …No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it

Humor Acceptance Humanity Intelligence

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because …If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Feeling Writer

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like …Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Humor






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