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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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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 crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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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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