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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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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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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 search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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