More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster a…
  2. There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
  3. They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
  4. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
  5. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
  6. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh …
  7. My life is as if you've hit me with it.
  8. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

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