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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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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Bernardo Soares
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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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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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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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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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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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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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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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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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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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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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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