Fernando Pessoa: Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand — Fernando Pessoa

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it. — Fernando Pessoa
God wills, man dreams, the work is born. — Fernando Pessoa
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering — Fernando Pessoa
Every gesture is a revolutionary act. — Fernando Pessoa
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have t — Michel de Montaigne
The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. — Francis Bacon
A man living without conflicts , as if he never lives at all. — Confucius
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, — George Bernard Shaw
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My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it. — Friedrich Schiller