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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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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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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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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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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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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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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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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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