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Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Fernando Pessoa

Birthname

Birthday: June 13, 1888

Death: November 30, 1935

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Portugal

Occupations: Essayist, Translator, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)

Tagged: Introvert

“ I do not sleep. I half-exist.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)

Tagged: Insomnia, Exist, Living

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Tagged: Literature, Books, Reading, Life

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