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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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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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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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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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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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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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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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Fraternity has subtleties.
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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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Everything is absurd.
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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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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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