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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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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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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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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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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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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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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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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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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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