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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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Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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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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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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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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To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
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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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I know not what tomorrow will bring.
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To love is to tire of being alone it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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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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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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