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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
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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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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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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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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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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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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