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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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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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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Everything is theater.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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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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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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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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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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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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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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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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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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