Fernando Pessoa

Portugal
13 Jun 1888 // 30 Nov 1935
Poet

Time and space cannot by themselves make individuality. Being is needed. A dead man occupies Time and Space, but has no individuality, no Being.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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