More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pai…
  2. The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
  3. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monst…
  4. What would happen to the world if we were human?
  5. We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
  6. Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
  7. And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
  8. Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

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