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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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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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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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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