Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Fernando Pessoa quotes, Fernando Pessoa sayings, and Fernando Pessoa proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.Fernando Pessoa
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.Fernando Pessoa
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.Fernando Pessoa
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.Fernando Pessoa
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Our personality should be impenetrable even to ourselves.Fernando Pessoa
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.Fernando Pessoa
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.Fernando Pessoa
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. Fernando Pessoa
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.Fernando Pessoa
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Fraternity has subtleties.Fernando Pessoa
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Contradiction is the essence of the universe.Fernando Pessoa
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.Fernando Pessoa
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We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.Fernando Pessoa
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.Fernando Pessoa
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.Fernando Pessoa
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.Fernando Pessoa
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!Fernando Pessoa
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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?Fernando Pessoa
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.Fernando Pessoa
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! Fernando Pessoa
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We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.Fernando Pessoa
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.Fernando Pessoa
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.Fernando Pessoa
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Life is good, but wine is better.Fernando Pessoa
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.Fernando Pessoa