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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
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Literary Critic
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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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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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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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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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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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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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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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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
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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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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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