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All beginnings are involuntary.

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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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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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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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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