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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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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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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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