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The human soul is an abyss
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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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Everything is absurd.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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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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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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