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Everything is theater.
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Literary Critic
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
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Everything
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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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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Everything is absurd.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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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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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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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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