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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
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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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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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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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After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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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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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?
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