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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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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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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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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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