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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

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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 you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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To love is to tire of being alone it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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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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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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To think is to destroy.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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