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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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I have no ambitions. Being a poet is not an ambition of mine, but my way of being alone.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The destiny is like a person and stops bothering us if we show that we don't care about what it does to us.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Literature, like any form of art, is the confession that life is not enough.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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I carry with me the wounds of all the battles I have avoided.

Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

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Only one thing is more painful than learning from experience, and that is, not learning from experience.

Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

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If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else.

Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

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We are surrounded by devices intended to save work, and yet we have very little genuine leisure.

Francis Petrarch

Francis Petrarch

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The law of love is harsh, but no matter how harsh it may be, it must be obeyed, for by it the earth and sky have been united since the depths of ages.

Francis Petrarch

Francis Petrarch

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Those who can say how much they love, feel only a small love.

Francis Petrarch

Francis Petrarch

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A beautiful death honors the entire life.

Francis Petrarch

Francis Petrarch

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No one is so young that they cannot die today.