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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Essayist
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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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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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.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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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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Art lies because it's social.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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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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My past is everything I failed to be.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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