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• There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

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  Real, People, Metaphor

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

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  Waking, Wake Up, Feels

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• Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

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  Want, Save Me

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• 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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  Memories, Imagination, Personality

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• To be understood is to prostitute oneself

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  Understood, Oneself

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.330, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life is a thread that someone entangled.

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  Life Is, Thread

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

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  Dream, Soul, Would Be

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• Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

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  Essence, Contradiction, Universe

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• I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

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  Dream, Tired, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.70, Profile Books

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• I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

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  Cheerful, Realizing

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

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  Law, Secret, Shadow

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• I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

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  Missing, Looks, Knows

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

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  Thinking, Thinking Hard, Has Beens

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.74, Profile Books

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• Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

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  Men, Trouble, Fame

  "A Celebridade". 1915.

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• Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

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  Tired, Sadness, Loss

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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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  Heart, Thinking, Emotion

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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  Glasses, Matter, Life Is

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 100, 1982.

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• I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

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  Past, Reality, Possibility

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

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  Thinking, Enough, Metaphysics

  Fernando Pessoa (2012). “A Centenary Pessoa”, p.87, Carcanet

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• My joy is as painful as my pain.

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  Pain, Joy, Painful

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 100, 2006.

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• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

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  Sky, Two, Abyss

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

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  Blessed, Blessed Are Those, Book Of Disquiet

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• 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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  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

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  Morning, Stupidity, Zenith

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• Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

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  Writing, Formal

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.298, Serpent's Tail

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