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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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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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