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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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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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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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Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
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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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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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
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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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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Better to dream than to be.
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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Life is good, but Wine is better.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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Everything is absurd.
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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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Art lies because it's social.
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