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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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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To love is to tire of being alone it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
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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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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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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