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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
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Animated
Poetic
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Philosopher
Poet
Philosophy

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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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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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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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