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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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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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Everything is theater.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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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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To love is to tire of being alone it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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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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My past is everything I failed to be.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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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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