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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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Everything is absurd.
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To think is to destroy.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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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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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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