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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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To think is to destroy.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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