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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
Existent
Quietness
Uncertain
Peace

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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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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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