19 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa about thinking

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    I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

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    Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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    Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

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    My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

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    To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

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    In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

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