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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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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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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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