Fernando Pessoa: Frasi in inglese

Fernando Pessoa era poeta, scrittore e aforista portoghese. Frasi in inglese.
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“I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul”

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Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”

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“Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.”

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Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“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.”

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“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart.”

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Origine: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

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“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Origine: The Book of Disquietude ["Livro do Desassossego"], by Bernardo Soares (Pessoa's semi-heteronym), translated by Richard Zenith (1996), text 1

“The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.”

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Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.”

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Origine: The Book of Disquiet

“Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”

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“We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.”

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Ibid., p. 52
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: Tornamo-nos esfinges, ainda que falsas, até chegarmos ao ponto de não sabermos quem somos.

“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”

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Ibid., p. 86
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: É nobre ser tímido, ilustre não saber agir, grande não ter jeito para viver.

“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”

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Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.

“Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”

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Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: A solidão desola-me; a companhia oprime-me.

“There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.”

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Ibid., p. 328
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir.

“Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.”

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Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Originale: O tédio é a falta de uma mitologia. A quem não tem crenças, até a dúvida é impossível, até o cepticismo não tem força para desconfiar.