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To think is to destroy.
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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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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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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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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