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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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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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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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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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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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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