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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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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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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
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