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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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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Humanitarianism is rude.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Art lies because it's social.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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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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