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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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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
I know not what tomorrow will bring
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Here lies, on the small farthest beach, the Captain of the End.
Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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