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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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FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
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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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Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
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Art lies because it's social.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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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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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Everything is absurd.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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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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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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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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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