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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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