Fernando Pessoa

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• Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.

  Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192

  • Love
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• Was it worthwhile?
  Everything is worthwhile
  if the soul is not small.

  Mensagem (1934), “Mar Português”

  • Inspiration

• Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

  The Book of Disquiet

  • Pride

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