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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 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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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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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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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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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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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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Everything is theater.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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