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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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Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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To think is to destroy.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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