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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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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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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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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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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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All beginnings are involuntary.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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