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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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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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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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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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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’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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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Everything is theater.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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