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I know nothing and my heart aches
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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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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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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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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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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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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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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Art lies because it's social.
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