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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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