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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied 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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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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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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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
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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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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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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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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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