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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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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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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 never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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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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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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