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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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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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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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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Art lies because it's social.
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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