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Fernando Pessoa

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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]


— Fernando Pessoa


#pessoa #zenith #life

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.


— Fernando Pessoa


#emptiness #pessoa #stoic #void #education

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.


— Fernando Pessoa


#time #love

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.


— Fernando Pessoa


#wisdom #inspirational

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. (76)


— Fernando Pessoa


#life #inspirational

A Arte é, com efeito, o aperfeiçoamento subjectivo da vida.


— Fernando Pessoa


#filosofia #art

The human soul is an abyss


— Fernando Pessoa


#human-nature #soul #wisdom #nature

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.


— Fernando Pessoa


#intelligence #portugal #portuguese #tax #unconsciousness

Não aspiro a nada. Dói-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e já mal onde penso em poder estar.


— Fernando Pessoa


#lack-of-motivation #life-and-living #life

Só o que sonhamos é o que verdadeiramente somos, porque o mais, por estar realizado, pertenece ao mundo e a toda a gente


— Fernando Pessoa


#life #dreams






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Unlike Caeiro who asks nothing of life he asks too much. Faustino Antunes" April 10 1907. He does not question anything whatsoever; he calmly accepts the world as it is.

He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Fernando Pessoa born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [feɾˈnɐ̃du ɐ̃ˈtɔnju nuˈgɐi̯ɾɐ dɨ siˈabɾɐ pɨˈsoɐ]; June 13 1888 – November 30 1935) was a Portuguese poet writer literary critic translator publiFernando Pessoar and philosopher described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.

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