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Nature is the difference betw...

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

Every spoken word double-cros...

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

But I am not perfect in my wa...

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

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I know nothing and my heart a...

I know nothing and my heart aches

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To think is to destroy. The v...

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

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On the road halfway between f...

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

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When all by myself, I can thi...

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

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I’m losing my taste for every...

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

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I've always been an ironic dr...

I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

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I realize that I was all erro...

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

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I never go to where's a risk....

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

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Property isn't theft: it's no...

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

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Since I wasn't able to leave ...

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

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What is a disease is wishing ...

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

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I had the same sensation as w...

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

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Yes, talking to people makes ...

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

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Never having discovered quali...

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

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And I have the others in me. ...

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

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We may know that the work we ...

We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.

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I'm going to end a life that ...

I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

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