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It's been a long time since I've been 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
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Bernardo Soares
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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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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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Everything is theater.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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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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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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