No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
More Quotes from Fernando Pessoa:
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.Fernando Pessoa
Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and the earth too.
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Fernando Pessoa
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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