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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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 enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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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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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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Everything is absurd.
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
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