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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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Everything is absurd.
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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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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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