Fernando Pessoa - Time Quotes

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I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

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For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

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I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

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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 pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

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I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

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Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

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