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My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
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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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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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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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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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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