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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa est un écrivain, critique, polémiste et poète portugais trilingue . Né le 13 juin 1888 à Lisbonne, ville où il meurt des suites de son alcoolisme le 30 novembre 1935, il a vécu une partie de son enfance à Durban en Afrique du Sud.

Théoricien de la littérature engagée dans une époque troublée par la guerre et les dictatures, inventeur inspiré par Cesário Verde du sensationnisme,, ses vers mystiques et sa prose poétique ont été les principaux agents du surgissement du modernisme au Portugal. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. juin 1888 – 30. novembre 1935  •  Autres noms Ferdinando Pessoa, Ֆերնանտո Բեսոա
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“J’ai eu envie un jour de faire une blague à Sá-Carneiro – inventer un poète bucolique, de l’espèce compliquée, et le lui présenter, je ne sais plus comment, d’une façon plausible quelconque – Je passais quelques jours à tenter d’élaborer le poète mais je ne parvins à rien. Un jour où j'avais finalement renoncé — c'était le 8 mars 1914 — je m'approchai d'une haute commode et, prenant une feuille de papier, je me mis à écrire, debout, comme je le fais chaque fois que je peux. Et j'ai écrit trente et quelques poèmes d'affilée, dans une sorte d'extase dont je ne saurai saisir la nature. Ce fut le jour triomphal de ma vie et je ne pourrai en connaître d'autres comme celui-là. Je débutai par un titre : Le Gardeur de troupeaux.”

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Et ce qui suivit fut l'apparition en moi de quelqu'un, à qui j'ai tout de suite donné le nom d'Alberto Caeiro. Excusez l'absurdité de la phrase : mon maître avait surgi en moi.
Lettre à Adolfo Casais Monteiro du [13, janvier, 1935] sur la naissance des hétéronymes

“Substitue-toi à Dieu sans vergogne. C’est la seule attitude réellement religieuse. (Dieu est partout sauf en lui-même).”

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“La mer est la religion de la Nature”

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“Ma vie tourne autour de mon œuvre littéraire - qu’elle soit, ou puisse être, bonne ou mauvaise. Tout le reste, dans la vie, n’a qu’un intérêt secondaire”

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Lettre de Fernando Pessoa à son « Opheline », Ofélia Queiroz

“Oh, quelle horreur, quelle horreur intime dénoue la voix de notre âme et les sensations de nos pensées et nous fait parler et sentir et penser quand tout en nous demande le silence et le jour et l’inconscience de la vie”

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“Il n'est pas suffisant de ne pas être aveugle pour voir les arbres et les fleurs. Il faut aussi n'avoir aucune philosophie. Quand il y a philosophie, il n'y a pas d'arbres: il y a des idées, sans plus”

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Fernando Pessoa Citations

“Je me suis multiplié pour me sentir, Pour me sentir, j'ai eu besoin de tout ressentir; J'ai débordé, j'ai fini par me répandre”

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“Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais.”

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“L'abîme est ma clôture, être moi n'a pas de mesure”

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“Surviens toi à toi même.”

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Le Chemin du serpent, recueil posthume

“Nous sommes aussi grands que nos rêves.”

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Fernando Pessoa: Citations en anglais

“Life is whatever we conceive it to be.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Everything is theater.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“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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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

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

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!…”

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Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her… I'm falling asleep in order to hear her… Go on, sister, go on… My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore…”

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Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.”

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Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”

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“Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.”

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“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart.”

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Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

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“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Source: The Book of Disquietude ["Livro do Desassossego"], by Bernardo Soares (Pessoa's semi-heteronym), translated by Richard Zenith (1996), text 1

“The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.”

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Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”

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“We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 52
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Tornamo-nos esfinges, ainda que falsas, até chegarmos ao ponto de não sabermos quem somos.

“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 86
The Book of Disquiet
Original: É nobre ser tímido, ilustre não saber agir, grande não ter jeito para viver.

“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.

“Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”

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Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A solidão desola-me; a companhia oprime-me.

“There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 328
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir.

“Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.”

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Fernando Pessoa livre The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O tédio é a falta de uma mitologia. A quem não tem crenças, até a dúvida é impossível, até o cepticismo não tem força para desconfiar.

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