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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.

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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'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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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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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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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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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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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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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