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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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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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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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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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