Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small."

"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."

"God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born."

"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."

"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 till it's built."

"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life."

"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."

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."

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