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The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
– Fernando Pessoa

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  2. My past is everything I failed to be. – Fernando Pessoa
  3. Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. – Fernando Pessoa
  4. I am nothing.I’ll never be anything.I couldn’t want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. – Fernando Pessoa
  5. Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! – Fernando Pessoa
  6. No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it – Fernando Pessoa
  7. Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. – Fernando Pessoa
  8. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. – Fernando Pessoa
  9. There’s a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness – Fernando Pessoa
  10. If the heart could think it would stop beating. – Fernando Pessoa
  11. Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel. – Fernando Pessoa
  12. I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought. – Fernando Pessoa
  13. The poet is a faker / Who’s so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact. – Fernando Pessoa
  14. From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I – Fernando Pessoa
  15. Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being. – Fernando Pessoa
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  17. All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous. – Fernando Pessoa
  18. By day I am nothing, by night I am I. – Fernando Pessoa
  19. The human soul is an abyss – Fernando Pessoa
  20. No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one’s self – Fernando Pessoa
  21. To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent. – Fernando Pessoa
  22. I look at myself but I’m missing. I know myself: it’s not me. – Fernando Pessoa
  23. Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets? – Fernando Pessoa
  24. Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets? – Fernando Pessoa
  25. Pure mind.Pure body.Pure spirit. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  26. He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. – Horace
  27. The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. – Paul Evdokimov
  28. Shake off the cloud of mere routine to find tranquil rustic joys and peace that serve to fuel audacious power and passion. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
  29. The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things. – David Paul Kirkpatrick
  30. plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal throughthe compact generations – Jean Cocteau
  31. He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He’s an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. – Elly Griffiths
  32. I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same. – Kristine Scarrow
  33. There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. – Ogwo David Emenike
  34. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  35. Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies. – Sachin Kundalkar
  37. I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies. – Sachin Kundalkar
  38. Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
  39. [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
  40. A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny

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