Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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

Stupidity, Acceptance, Idea

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

Valentine's Day, Earth, Chocolates

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa

Small, Soul, Worthwhile

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

Life, Acting, Choose

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

Success, Successful, Potential

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

Today, Lost, Remember

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa

Heart, Stop, Beating

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

Wise, Show, Enjoys

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

Strikes, Unfamiliar, Root

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Biography

Nationality: Portuguese

Type: Author

Born: June 13, 1888

Died: November 30, 1935

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