"Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul."
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"The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own"
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"It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living."
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"Better to dream than to be."
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"Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]"
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"After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts."
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"What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him."
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"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."
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"Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego"
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"Art consists in making others feel what we feel."
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"The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races."
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"There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street."
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"If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room."
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"The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese."
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"I never meant to be but a dreamer."
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"Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes."
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"If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls."
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"There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe."
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"Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being."
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"What is art but the denial of life?"
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