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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

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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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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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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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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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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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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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Everything is absurd.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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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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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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