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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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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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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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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
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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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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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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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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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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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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet
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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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