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If, on thinking this, I look ...

If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

Fernando Pessoa 317 quotes

If I write what I feel, it's ...

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

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I'm the empty stage where var...

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

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I carry my awareness of defea...

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

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La literatura es la manera m?...

La literatura es la manera m?s agradable de ignorar la vida.

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For I am the size of what I s...

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

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Everything around me is evapo...

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.

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My soul is impatient with its...

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. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.

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One never lives so intensely ...

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

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I think of life as an inn whe...

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

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Everything stated or expresse...

Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.

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I don't mourn the loss of my ...

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

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Inch by inch I conquered the ...

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

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In this metallic age of barba...

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

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As I walk, I construct perfec...

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

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And I, who timidly hate life,...

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

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I asked for very little from ...

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

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Ah, it's my longing for whom ...

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

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I search and can't find mysel...

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

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I am the escaped one, After I...

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

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