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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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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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I know nothing and my heart aches
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
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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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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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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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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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