Fernando Pessoa: Frasi in inglese

Fernando Pessoa era poeta, scrittore e aforista portoghese. Frasi in inglese.
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“In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“My boredom with everything has numbed me.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Life is whatever we conceive it to be.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Everything is theater.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!…”

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Fernando Pessoa

Origine: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her… I'm falling asleep in order to hear her… Go on, sister, go on… My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore…”

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Origine: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro dell'inquietudine

Origine: The Book of Disquiet