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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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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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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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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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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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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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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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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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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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To think is to destroy.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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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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My past is everything I failed to be.
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Art lies because it's social.
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