PHILOSOPHY

Always be drunk.
That's it!
The great imperative!
In order not to feel
Time's horrid burden
that bruise your shoulders,
grinding you into the earth,
Get drunk and stay that way.
On what?
On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
But get drunk.
And if you sometimes happen to wake up
on the porches of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the dismal loneliness of your own room,
your drunkenness gone or disappearing,
ask the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock,
ask everything that flees,
everything that groans
or rolls
or sings,
everything that speaks,
ask what time it is;
and the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock
will answer you:
"Time to get drunk!
Don't be martyred slaves of Time,
Get drunk!
Stay drunk!
On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"

Charles Baudelaire

Interests

• poetry
• wine

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Carlos Paredes, Dream Theather, Iron Maiden, Liquid Tension Experiment, Metallica (only until Black Album), Avantasia, Queen, Danny Elfman, Steve Vai, Edith Piaf, Chopin, Rachmaninov

Movies: Edward Scissorhands, Before Sunrise, Jeux d'Enfants, Bleu, Casablanca, The Return of the King, Star Wars (IV,V,VI), Garden State

Books: O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis, Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, Historias Marginales, 1984,

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, United Kingdom

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