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Pessoa Quotes: "Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.



Pessoa Quotes: "My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.




Pessoa Quotes: "The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere."

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.



Pessoa Quotes: "We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love."

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.




Pessoa Quotes: "There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist."

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.



Pessoa Quotes: "Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.



Pessoa Quotes: "I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.




Pessoa Quotes: "It's been a long time since I've been me."

It's been a long time since I've been me.



Pessoa Quotes: "I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.



Pessoa Quotes: "I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me."

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.



Pessoa Quotes: "I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing."

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.



Pessoa Quotes: "Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small."

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.




Pessoa Quotes: "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"

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



Pessoa Quotes: "We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect."

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.



Pessoa Quotes: "There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.



Pessoa Quotes: "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.



Pessoa Quotes: "To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything."

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.



Pessoa Quotes: "I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have."

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.



Pessoa Quotes: "I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul."

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.



Pessoa Quotes: "I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist."

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.



Pessoa Quotes: "Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle."

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.



Pessoa Quotes: "If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave."

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.



Pessoa Quotes: "Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny."

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.



Pessoa Quotes: "To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect."

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.



Pessoa Quotes: "Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns."

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.



Pessoa Quotes: "We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky."

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.



Pessoa Quotes: "Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming."

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.



Pessoa Quotes: "In order to understand, I destroyed myself."

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.



Pessoa Quotes: "I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up."

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.



Pessoa Quotes: "I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else."

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.



Pessoa Quotes: "Strength without agility is a mere mass."

Strength without agility is a mere mass.



Pessoa Quotes: "I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots."

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.



Pessoa Quotes: "La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida."

La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.



Pessoa Quotes: "As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes."

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.



Pessoa Quotes: "To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)"

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)



Pessoa Quotes: "My past is everything I failed to be."

My past is everything I failed to be.



Pessoa Quotes: "The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free."

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.



Pessoa Quotes: "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.



Pessoa Quotes: "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."

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.



Pessoa Quotes: "For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size."

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.



Pessoa Quotes: "No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.



Pessoa Quotes: "To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours."

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.



Pessoa Quotes: "For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful"

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful



Pessoa Quotes: "If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.



Pessoa Quotes: "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."

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.



Pessoa Quotes: "I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am."

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.



Pessoa Quotes: "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates."

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.



Pessoa Quotes: "Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating."

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.



Pessoa Quotes: "Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?"

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?