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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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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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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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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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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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