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The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
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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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
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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 think is to destroy.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
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Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa
To be great, be whole Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
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