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Fernando Pessoa
Portugal
13 Jun 1888 // 30 Nov 1935
Poet
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36 Poems
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On Confidence:
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
The Book of Disquiet
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On Think:
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
The Book of Disquiet
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On God:
Whether there be gods or not, we are their servants.
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On Self-knowledge:
Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!
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On Live (To):
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
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On Life:
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
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On Personality:
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
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On Self-knowledge:
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
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On Opinion:
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
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On Reality:
I wasn�t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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."
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Francis Bacon
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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