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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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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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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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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 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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