And I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. - Fernando Pessoa

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And I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

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About Fernando Pessoa

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.

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Native Name: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Alternative Names: Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa Alberto Caeiro Ricardo Reis Bernardo Soares
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Sem a loucura que é o homem
Mais que a besta sadia,
Cadáver adiado que procria?

O sonho é ver as formas invisíveis
Da distância imprecisa, e, com sensíveis
Movimentos da esp'rança e da vontade,
Buscar na linha fria do horizonte
A árvore, a praia, a flor, a ave, a fonte -
Os beijos merecidos da Verdade.

(...) Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
Quem quere passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.

Triste de quem é feliz!
Vive porque a vida dura.
Nada na alma lhe diz
Mais que a lição da raiz -
Ter por vida a sepultura.

Ser descontente é ser homem.

Tenho meus olhos quentes de água.

'Screvo meu livro à beira-mágoa.

Quando, meu Sonho e meu Senhor?

Futile and sensitive, I'm capable of violent and consuming impulses – both good and bad, noble and vile – but never of a sentiment that endures, never of an emotion that continues, entering into the substance of my soul. Everything in me tends to go on to become something else. My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

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