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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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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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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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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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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away 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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Everything is absurd.
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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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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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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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