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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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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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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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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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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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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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The human soul is an abyss
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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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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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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