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

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: First Root Strikes Then Unfamiliar

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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Small Soul Worthwhile

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

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: He Offered Show Who Wise World

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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.

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Corpse Feel Felt Lived Living Lost Remember Today Yesterday

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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Beating Could Heart Stop Think Would

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

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Acceptance Gain General Idea Intelligent Mixed Some Stupidity Unless

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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.

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Any Being Built Consists Ground Having Palace Piece Potential Site Success Successful Till Wide

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

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Earth Like Look Metaphysics

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

~Fernando Pessoa

Topics: Acting Choose Concern Ever Life My Life Ways

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Biography

Nationality: Portuguese

Type: Author

Born: June 13th, 1888

Died: November 30th, 1935

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