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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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Literary Critic
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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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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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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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 carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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