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The weariness of all illusions and of everything that illusions involve — the loss of them, the pointlessness of having them, the anticipatory weariness of having to have them in order to lose them, the pain of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing how they would end.

— Fernando Pessoa

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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

A Celebridade (1915)

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

Was it worthwhile?
Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.

Ah, to be you while being I!
To have your glad unconsciousness
And be conscious of it!

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