Fernando Pessoa: I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in havin — Fernando Pessoa

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

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Nature is the difference between the soul and God. — Fernando Pessoa
Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods. — Fernando Pessoa
I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. — Fernando Pessoa
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Ambition is not a vice of little people. — Michel de Montaigne
I am envious in nature, but I have never had the patience to be ambitious. — Jules Renard
I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On. — George Bernard Shaw
Et à quoi bon exécuter des projets, puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouiss — Charles Baudelaire
Notre cœur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés. Nous ne pardonno — Honoré de Balzac
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. — Rabindranath Tagore
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. — John Oliver Hobbes
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness , revelry, high lif — Arthur Schopenhauer