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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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