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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 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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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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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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 never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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Better to dream than to be.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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These pages are not my confession they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
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