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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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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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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Art lies because it's social.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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