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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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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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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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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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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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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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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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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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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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Better to dream than to be.
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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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