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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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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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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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