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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
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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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I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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