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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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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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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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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Everything is theater.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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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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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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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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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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