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Fernando Pessoa Quotes

«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.»
«To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.»
«At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.»
«Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.»
«Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.»
«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.»
«Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and the earth too.»
«No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.»
«All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.»
«God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.»