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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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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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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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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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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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Everything is absurd.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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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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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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Art lies because it's social.
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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