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Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.”

451. “Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “With Destiny driving the wagon of everything down the road of nothing.”

452. “With Destiny driving the wagon of everything down the road of nothing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “We never disembark from ourselves. We never attain another existence unless we other ourselves by actively, vividly imagining who we are. The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them. None of the four corners of the world is the one that interests me and that I can truly see; it’s the fifth corner that I travel in, and it belongs to me.”

453. “We never disembark from ourselves. We never attain another existence unless we other ourselves by actively, vividly imagining who we are. The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them. None of the four corners of the world is the one that interests me and that I can truly see; it’s the fifth corner that I travel in, and it belongs to me.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “And through it all, behind my daydream, I’ll feel my soul like a whistle of stark anxiety, a pure and shrill howl, useless in the world’s darkness.”

454. “And through it all, behind my daydream, I’ll feel my soul like a whistle of stark anxiety, a pure and shrill howl, useless in the world’s darkness.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “For me, life is a somnolence that does not affect the brain. I keep that free as a place in which to be sad.”

455. “For me, life is a somnolence that does not affect the brain. I keep that free as a place in which to be sad.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Nunca he sabido si mi sensibilidad era excesiva para mi inteligencia, o si mi inteligencia lo era para mi sensibilidad.”

456. “Nunca he sabido si mi sensibilidad era excesiva para mi inteligencia, o si mi inteligencia lo era para mi sensibilidad.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.”

457. “Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “I’m ignorant, like these rooftops. I’ve failed, like all of nature.”

458. “I’m ignorant, like these rooftops. I’ve failed, like all of nature.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “The truth is, though, that the things we love most, or think we love, only have their full value when we merely dream them.”

459. “The truth is, though, that the things we love most, or think we love, only have their full value when we merely dream them.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Who knows for what supreme forces – gods or demons of Truth in whose shadow we roam – I may be nothing but a shiny fly that alights in front of them for a moment or two? A facile hypothesis? Trite observation? Philosophy with no real thought? Maybe. But I didn’t think: I felt. It was carnally, directly, with profound and dark horror that I made this ludicrous comparison.”

460. “Who knows for what supreme forces – gods or demons of Truth in whose shadow we roam – I may be nothing but a shiny fly that alights in front of them for a moment or two? A facile hypothesis? Trite observation? Philosophy with no real thought? Maybe. But I didn’t think: I felt. It was carnally, directly, with profound and dark horror that I made this ludicrous comparison.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable either to see his face or to look into his own eyes. He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to commit the ignominy of seeing his own face. The creator of the mirror poisoned the human soul.”

461. “Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable either to see his face or to look into his own eyes. He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to commit the ignominy of seeing his own face. The creator of the mirror poisoned the human soul.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “The world is for the person who is born to conquer it. And not for the one who dreams he can conquer it, even if he be right. I have dreamed more than Napoleon performed.”

462. “The world is for the person who is born to conquer it. And not for the one who dreams he can conquer it, even if he be right. I have dreamed more than Napoleon performed.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “To act – that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there’s no palace until it’s built.”

463. “To act – that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there’s no palace until it’s built.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Only landscapes that don’t exist and books I’ll never read aren’t tedious. Life, for me, is a drowsiness that never reaches the brain. This I keep free, so that I can be sad there.”

464. “Only landscapes that don’t exist and books I’ll never read aren’t tedious. Life, for me, is a drowsiness that never reaches the brain. This I keep free, so that I can be sad there.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I’ve shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I’ve become a not entirely clear and definite individual.”

465. “To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I’ve shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I’ve become a not entirely clear and definite individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Art frees us, illusorily, from the squalor of being. While feeling the wrongs and sufferings endured by Hamlet, prince of Denmark, we don’t feel our own, which are vile because they’re ours and vile because they’re vile.”

466. “Art frees us, illusorily, from the squalor of being. While feeling the wrongs and sufferings endured by Hamlet, prince of Denmark, we don’t feel our own, which are vile because they’re ours and vile because they’re vile.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “I desire what I do not desire and renounce what I do not have. I can be neither nothing nor everything: I’m just the bridge between what I do not have and what I do not want.”

467. “I desire what I do not desire and renounce what I do not have. I can be neither nothing nor everything: I’m just the bridge between what I do not have and what I do not want.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque.”

468. “The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn’t know what freedom is. Civilization is an education in nature. Artificiality is the path for appreciating what’s natural. We should never, however, take the artificial for the natural. It’s the harmony between the natural and the artificial that constitutes the natural state of the superior human soul.”

469. “Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn’t know what freedom is. Civilization is an education in nature. Artificiality is the path for appreciating what’s natural. We should never, however, take the artificial for the natural. It’s the harmony between the natural and the artificial that constitutes the natural state of the superior human soul.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “I’m talking metaphysics? But all of life is a metaphysics in the darkness, with a vague murmur of the gods and only one way to follow, which is our ignorance of the right way.”

470. “I’m talking metaphysics? But all of life is a metaphysics in the darkness, with a vague murmur of the gods and only one way to follow, which is our ignorance of the right way.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it’s because I have nothing to say.”

471. “In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it’s because I have nothing to say.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “Eres lo que falta a todo. Eres lo que falta a cada cosa para poder amarla por siempre. Llave extraviada de las puertas del Templo, camino encubierto del Palacio, Isla lejana que la bruma nunca deja ver...”

472. “Eres lo que falta a todo. Eres lo que falta a cada cosa para poder amarla por siempre. Llave extraviada de las puertas del Templo, camino encubierto del Palacio, Isla lejana que la bruma nunca deja ver...”

— Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth floor room that looks out on the infinite, my dreams move to the rhythm required by long journeys to countries as yet unknown, or to countries that are simply hypothetical or impossible.”

473. “In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth floor room that looks out on the infinite, my dreams move to the rhythm required by long journeys to countries as yet unknown, or to countries that are simply hypothetical or impossible.”

— Fernando Pessoa

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