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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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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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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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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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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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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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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