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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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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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