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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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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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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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