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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
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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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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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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 belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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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 don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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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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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Better to dream than to be.
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