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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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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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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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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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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
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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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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
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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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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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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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My curiosity sister of larks.
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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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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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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 go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
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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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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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