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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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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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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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