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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Everything is absurd.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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To think is to destroy.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Art lies because it's social.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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