Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."
Book Of Disquiet quotes
Book Of Disquiet
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Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect"
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"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."
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"I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything."
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"...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad."
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"Art consists in making others feel what we feel."
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"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"
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"Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one."
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"Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!"
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"But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?"
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