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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa
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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
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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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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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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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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