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Fernando Pessoa

A Modernist icon, Fernando Pessoa revolutionized world literature through his heteronyms, exploring the fragmentation of identity and the complex self in immortal works.

Frases de Fernando Pessoa

  • The poet is a faker. Who so completely fakes, that they even fake the pain, they truly feel as aches.
    Reflexão Estética
  • All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
    Motivacional Filosófico
  • I have in me all the dreams of the world.
    Existencialista
  • To be great, be whole: exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is yours.
    Ética Estoica
  • Newton's binomial is as beautiful as the Venus de Milo. The thing is, few people notice it.
    Estética e Ciência
  • To feel everything in every way.
    Sensacionismo
  • My homeland is the Portuguese language.
    Identidade Linguística
  • I am nothing. I shall always be nothing. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
    Existencialista Nihilista
  • My gaze is as clear as a sunflower.
    Objetivismo Poético
  • The essential thing is to know how to see, to see without thinking.
    Epistemologia Poética
  • Living is not necessary; what is necessary is creating.
    Metafísica da Arte
  • God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
    Provencialismo Épico
  • To sail is necessary; to live is not.
    Filosofia de Ação
  • To be a Christian is to not be humanitarian.
    Teologia Crítica
  • Freedom is the possibility of isolation.
    Reflexão sobre Liberdade
  • Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
    Crítica Literária
  • To act, that is intelligence. I will be what I want. But I must want whatever that is.
    Vontade e Ação
  • All poetry — and song is but helped poetry — reflects what the soul lacks.
    Teoria da Poesia
  • To read is to dream, guided by someone else's hand.
    Metáfora da Leitura
  • To know how to have no opinions is to know how to be a poet.
    Filosofia da Percepção
  • Science describes things as they are; art describes things as they are felt.
    Diferenciação Estética
  • Ah, what I feel is not what I am!
    Crise de Identidade
  • To be a poet is not my ambition. It is my way of being alone.
    Identidade Poética
  • Love is a desire for rest.
    Definição de Amor
  • Travel? To travel, one only needs to exist.
    Metafísica do Espaço
  • Sometimes I hear the wind pass; and just for hearing the wind pass, it is worth being born.
    Contemplativo
  • I have so much feeling that I often convince myself that I am sentimental, yet I recognize, upon measuring myself, that it is all thought, and that I felt nothing.
    Introspectivo
  • I carry with me the scars of all the battles I avoided.
    Melancólico
  • The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax on intelligence.
    Intelectual

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