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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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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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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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