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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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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.
The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!
I have no ambitions nor desires.
A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.
It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character — all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
My past is everything I failed to be.
Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are.
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