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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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