Quote#Happiness
There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness…
Quote byFernando Pessoa · 1888–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Book of Disquiet, Original: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir..
English (original)
There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo. Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
All beginnings are involuntary.
Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting