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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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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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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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To think is to destroy.
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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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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Everything is absurd.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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