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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
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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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