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

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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I'm nothing, I'll always be nothing. I can't even wish to be something. Aside from that, I've got all the world's dreams inside me.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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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.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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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.

quote by Fernando Pessoa
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At Times I Have

At times I have happy ideas,
Ideas suddenly happy, in among ideas
And the words in which they naturally shake free...

After writing, I read...
What made me write that?
Where have I been to find that?
Where did that come to me from? It is better than me...
Shall we have been, in the world, at the most, pen and ink
With which somebody writes properly what we here jot?...

poem by Fernando Pessoa from The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos (1934)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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The Child!

If a day i was child
bring in my heart
such lies!
the time I had
was fled
dance,
ciranda cirandinha.....
Hide and seek!
but always on the run
I was going to last floor
The Solar
four windows
North, south, west, east
From there, all view was possible
The four winds
helped me to turn pages

The library,

there lies,

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poem by Mirna Morgan
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Second Watcher: The country here is such a very cheerless place... Where I lived before it was less cheerless. In the evening I sat by the window spinning. The window looked out to the sea and at times there was an island in the distance... Many times, I stopped spinning; just looked out to the sea and forgot living. I don’t know if I was happy. Now I shall not be something that maybe I never was...
First Watcher: Apart from here, I had never seen the sea. There, from that window, is the only place where the sea can be seen and can be seen so little of it! Is the sea in other lands beautiful?
Second Watcher: Only the sea from other lands is beautiful. That one which we see always makes us miss the one we shall never see...

lines from the play The Sailor, script by Fernando Pessoa (1913), translated by Dan Costinaș
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