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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
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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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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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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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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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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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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