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Alberto Caeiro  Quotes
But if God is the trees and the flowersAnd the hills and the moonlight and the sun,Why should I call him God?I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight;Because if he...

—Alberto Caeiro

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BeautyGodLove
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A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy talesActs like a sick god, but like a god.Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,He knows things exist, that he exists,He knows...

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BeingClarityExistence
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I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

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BeautyBeingClarity
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If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I...

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ExistenceExplanationGod
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I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf...

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GodLifeMeaning-Of-Life
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If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it...

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AlrightBeautyDeath
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I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses…If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,Because when you love you never...

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InnocenceNatureNature-Of-Love
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I’m a keeper of flocks.The flock is my thoughtsAnd my thoughts are all sensations.I think with my eyes and with my earsAnd with my hands and feetAnd with my nose and mouth.Thinking about a flower...

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BeautyBlessingGod
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On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

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ExistenceImaginationIt-Is-What-It-Is
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I’m one of my sensations.

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BeautyBeingClarity
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I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

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BeingExistenceLife
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She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.It’s like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden...

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A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.

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BeautyIt-Is-What-It-IsLanguage
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The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.

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BelongingHomeHomeland
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Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

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BeautyBeingLife
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He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or...

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ClarityDeathHappiness
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And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunderstorm than if...

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BeautyCome-What-MayDay-After-Tomorrow
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Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

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BeingBirthExistence
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I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as...

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BelovedFallen-In-LoveFeeling
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The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

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BeautyCosmosGod
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And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,And commerce, and the ships leavingTheir smoke on the high seas.Because he knows all of this lacks the truthA flower has in its bloomingAnd which moves with...

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GodNaturePaganism
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But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight,Then I believe in him,Then I believe in him all the time,And my whole life is an oration and...

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BeautyBeliefGod
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Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd it’s only what nothing else is.The fact that it’s it separates it from...

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ClarityIt-Is-What-It-IsPaganism
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Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don’t want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It’s something relative to the past...

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BeautyEternityExistence
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man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.How perfect that he is in...

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BodyClarityCosmos
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The amorous shepherd has lost his staff,And his sheep are straying on the hillside,And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much.No one came to him or...

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ClarityFallen-Out-Of-LoveIt-Is-What-It-Is
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Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

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BeautyGodLife
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One day when God fell asleepAnd the Holy Ghost went off flying,He got into a box of miracles and stole three.With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run...

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GodLifeLife-Philosophy
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To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her.I have a...

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AmbivalenceComplexityConfusion
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Let’s be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness in his spring,And a river for us to go to...

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BeautyLifeLife-Philosophy
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I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

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CosmosGodLife
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Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

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BeautyBeingClarity
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It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

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ClarityCosmosExistence
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If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

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BeautyGodMysticism
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He’s taught me everything.He taught me how to look at things.He shows me everything there is in flowers.He shows me how stones are pleasingWhen you hold them in your handAnd look at them for a...

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GodLifeLove
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If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI’d be more happy for a minute or so…But I don’t always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to...

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BeautyDeathFaith
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I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

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ChangeClarityGrowth
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Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

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ExistenceGodIt-Is-What-It-Is
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If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where I’m lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels...

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BeautyBeingClarity
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Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.They’re things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from...

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ExistenceFallen-In-LoveFeeling
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Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know...

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BeautyBeingExistence
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That lady has a piano.It’s nice, but it’s not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?It’s better to have earsAnd love Nature.

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GodLoveMeaning-Of-Life
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Pensar incomoda como andar à chuvaQuando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.

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Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don’t make any more gestures.It’s already not the same time,...

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ChangeClarityIt-Is-What-Is-Is
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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

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GodMetaphysicsPaganism
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Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

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BeautyClarityIt-Is-What-It-Is
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Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.

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DiscoveryFeelingGod
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What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these...

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BeautyCosmosGod
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And sometimes if I wantTo imagine I’m a lamb(Or a whole flockSpreading out all over the hillsideSo I can be a lot of happy things at the same time),It’s only because I feel what I...

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At-PeaceBeingNature
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That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams...

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BeautyBeingBody
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