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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.

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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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 pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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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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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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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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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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