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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Was it worthwhile? if the soul is not small.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodre. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Fraternity has subtleties.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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Fernando Pessoa |
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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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My life is as if you've hit me with it.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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To act is to rest.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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Fernando Pessoa |
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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