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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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 the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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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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Art lies because it's social.
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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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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