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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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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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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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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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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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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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