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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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Essayist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Desks
Closer
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Life

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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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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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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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My past is everything I failed to be.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Better to dream than to be.
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