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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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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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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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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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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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