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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

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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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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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
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