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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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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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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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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 go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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 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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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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