Quote #73

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. I never meant to be but a dreamer.
  2. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
  3. 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…
  4. 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 …
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
  8. To act is to rest.

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