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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against 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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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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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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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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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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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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