Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Biography: Fernando Pessoa is known for being one of the most significant literar... more Biography: Fernando Pessoa is known for being one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century, particularly in Portuguese literature. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was a prolific writer and poet who created numerous heteronyms, each with distinct biographies and writing styles. His major work, "The Book of Disquiet," remains a profound exploration of existential angst and inner life. less

"Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, collaborators in shaping our lives, invisible vortexes with effects that are internalized and perpetual.""What we see is not what we see but what we are.""To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.""I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.""Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built.""Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.""To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow.""I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.""To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do.""The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. Hence, unforgettable moments, coincidental things, and unparalleled people."

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