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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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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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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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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
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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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There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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My past is everything I failed to be.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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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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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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The human soul is an abyss
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I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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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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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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