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Fernando Pessoa

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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.


— 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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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.


— Fernando Pessoa


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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.


— 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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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.


— Fernando Pessoa


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Did you know about Fernando Pessoa?

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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