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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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 Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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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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