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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
Bernardo Soares
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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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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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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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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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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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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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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