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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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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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