Fernando Pessoa: Frases en inglés

Fernando Pessoa era poeta portugués. Frases en inglés.
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“But my sadness is comforting
Because it’s right and natural
And because it’s what the soul should feel
When it already thinks it exists
And the hand pick flowers
And the soul takes no notice.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 14-15
Fuente: The Education of the Stoic

“Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

A Factless Autobiography, number 21, tr. by Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)
Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“I am the escaped one,
After I was born
They locked me up inside me
But I left.
My soul seeks me,
Through hills and valley,
I hope my soul
Never finds me.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”

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Fernando Pessoa

Poem "D. Sebastião", verses 8-10
Message
Original: Sem a loucura que é o homem
Mais que a besta sadia,
Cadáver adiado que procria?
Fuente: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“Every gesture is a revolutionary act.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Ibid., p. 274
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Todo o gesto é um acto revolucionário.

“Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Ibid.
Original: Benditos os que não confiam a vida a ninguém.
Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.”

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Fernando Pessoa

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

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Fernando Pessoa

Fuente: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet

“It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.”

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Fernando Pessoa libro Libro del desasosiego

Fuente: The Book of Disquiet