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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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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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To love is to tire of being alone it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Everything is theater.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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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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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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