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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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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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Art lies because it's social.
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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 take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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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 walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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