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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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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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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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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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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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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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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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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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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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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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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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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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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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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