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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.

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
Author
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Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
Around
Centre
Live
Absurd
Always
Chaos
Life
Towards
Ellipses
Like
Tend
Dispersion
Planets
Continual
Outside
Trace
Almost
Distant

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