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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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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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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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