Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Who is Fernando Pessoa?
Born | June 13, 1888 |
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Died | November 30, 1935 |
Books by Fernando Pessoa
Best 8 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
“Stones in the way? I keep them all. One day I will build a castle.”
The Book of Disquiet Quotes
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
“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 worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
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“Out of all the problems that have ever or will ever exist on the Earth, there is only one that men haven’t and will never be able to solve — not because they can’t, because that’s ridiculous, but because the problem is unsolvable by design. Women hate sex.”