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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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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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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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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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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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