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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
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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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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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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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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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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 don't mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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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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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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