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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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
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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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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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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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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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