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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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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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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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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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