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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.

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
Author
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Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
Mankind
Drunkenness
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Liver
Write
Damned
Wells
Poems
Well
Bless
Feel
Till
Feels
Sick
Writing
Drink

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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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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Everything is absurd.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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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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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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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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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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