More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. 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 alm…
  2. Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
  3. Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
  4. To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
  5. The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
  6. I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise,…
  7. I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
  8. Enthusiasm is rude.

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