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If After I Die

If, after I die, they should want to write my biography,

There's nothing simpler.

I've just two dates - of my birth, and of my death.

In between the one thing and the other all the days aremine.

I am easy to describe.

I lived like mad.

I loved things without any sentimentality.

I never had a desire I could not fulfil, becauseI never went blind.

Even hearing was to me never more than anaccompaniment of seeing.

I understood that things are real and all different fromeach other;

I understood it with the eyes, never with thinking.

To understand it with thinking would be to find themall equal.

One day I felt sleepy like a child.

I closed my eyes and slept.

And by the way,

I was only Nature poet.written under the pen name of Alberto Caeiro

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and phi…

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