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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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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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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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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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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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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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