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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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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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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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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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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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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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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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Better to dream than to be.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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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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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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