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Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese
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About the author
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,
Portuguese
Author
#Success
#Successful
#Being
#Potential
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#Stupidity
#Idea
#Gain
#Acceptance
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#World
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,
Portuguese
Author
#Today
#Living
#Yesterday
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#Earth
#Metaphysics
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#Heart
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#First
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#Soul
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa,
Portuguese
Author
#Acting
#Life
#Concern