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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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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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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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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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To think is to destroy.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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