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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Everything is absurd.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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