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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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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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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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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've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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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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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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