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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
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Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Art lies because it's social.
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Humanitarianism is rude.
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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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