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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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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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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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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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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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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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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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