To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we … - Fernando Pessoa

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To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all — it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

Fernando Pessoa

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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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Pen Names: Alberto Caeiro • Álvaro de Campos • Ricardo Reis • Bernardo Soares

Native Name: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

Alternative Names: Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa

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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Trago dentro do meu coração,
Como num cofre que se não pode fechar de cheio,
Todos os lugares onde estive,
Todos os portos a que cheguei,
Todas as paisagens que vi através de janelas ou vigias,
Ou de tombadilhos, sonhando,
E tudo isso, que é tanto, é pouco para o que eu quero.

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.

To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to … - Fernando Pessoa

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