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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’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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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 don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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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's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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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’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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