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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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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Humanitarianism is rude.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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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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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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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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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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