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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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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Art lies because it's social.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Your poems are of interest to mankind your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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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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