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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
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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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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Humanitarianism is rude.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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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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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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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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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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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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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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