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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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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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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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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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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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