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Better to dream than to be.
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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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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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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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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