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Everything is absurd.
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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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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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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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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