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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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Art lies because it's social.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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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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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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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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