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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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 pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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