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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

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
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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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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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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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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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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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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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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