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My joy is as painful as my pain.

— Fernando Pessoa

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearl…
  2. Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
  3. I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
  4. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
  5. You breathe better when you're rich.
  6. My life is as if you've hit me with it.
  7. What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I…
  8. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

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Topics in this quote

  • suffering
  • happiness
  • emotion
  • feelings

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