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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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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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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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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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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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Everything is theater.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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