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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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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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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
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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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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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