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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
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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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 worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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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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My curiosity sister of larks.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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To think is to destroy.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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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'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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