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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
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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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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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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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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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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