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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
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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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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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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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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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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The human soul is an abyss
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
Fernando Pessoa
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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