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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
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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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 wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found 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'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.
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