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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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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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Nature is the difference between the soul and 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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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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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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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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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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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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