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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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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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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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 are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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