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Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon, Portugal on June 13, 1888.
* He lived in Durban, South Africa from the age of 5 to 17.
* He returned to Lisbon in 1905 and worked as a clerk and translator.
* He began writing poetry in English and Portuguese in his early twenties.
* He created a number of heteronyms, or invented personalities, through which he wrote.
* His most famous heteronym is Álvaro de Campos, a modernist poet.
* Pessoa is considered one of the most important Portuguese poets of the 20th century.
* He died in Lisbon on November 30, 1935.
* His work continues to be read and studied by people all over the world.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Fernando Pessoa

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Fernando Pessoa

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

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My past is everything I failed to be.

Fernando Pessoa

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