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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
Bernardo Soares
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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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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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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