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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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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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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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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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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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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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