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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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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
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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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I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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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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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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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
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