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Humanitarianism is rude.
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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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