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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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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
If, after I die, they should want to write my biography,
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
Everything is imperfect. There’s no sunset so lovely it couldn’t be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn’t bring a yet sounder sleep.
The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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