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The end of lower art is to pl...

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.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

I am the escaped one, After I...

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

To be great, be whole; Exclud...

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

Being tired of all illusions ...

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

In this metallic age of barba...

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

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I search and can't find mysel...

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

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Ah, it's my longing for whom ...

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

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I asked for very little from ...

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

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And I, who timidly hate life,...

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

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As I walk, I construct perfec...

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

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I pass times, I pass silences...

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

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The beauty of a naked body is...

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

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In today's life, the world be...

In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

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Every day things happen in th...

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

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There are no norms. All peopl...

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

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I'd woken up early, and I too...

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

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Life is full of paradoxes, as...

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

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Between me and life is a fain...

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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My soul is a hidden orchestra...

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.

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If you cannot live alone, you...

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

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

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