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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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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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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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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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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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You breathe better when you're rich.
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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Everything is absurd.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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