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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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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
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I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
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I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Solitude desolates me company oppresses me.
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