Fernando Pessoa: These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place

These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place — Fernando Pessoa

These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place

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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax. — Fernando Pessoa
We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. — Fernando Pessoa
Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain. — Fernando Pessoa
The clock of doom had struck as fated; the poet, without a sound, let fall his p — Alexander Pushkin
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manusc — Omar Khayyám
There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we r — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as — Gustave Flaubert
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the worl — Arthur Schopenhauer
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its de — John Ruskin
She married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for buil — Jane Austen