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1888–1935 Portugal
Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet and writer, most of whose work was published posthumously. He wrote frequently under heteronyms, alter egos with developed personalities, biographies, jobs, habits, attitudes, addresses, etc., who sometimes quoted and interacted with each other and other people.
Also known as: Pessoa, Pessoa, Fernando
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
Whatever the case, it would have been better not to be born.
Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.
What would happen to the world if we were human?
That's not my love; that's just your life.
Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.
I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the gap between what I'd like to be and what others have made me.
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
Myth is the nothing that is everything.
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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