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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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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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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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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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 never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Art lies because it's social.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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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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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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