From "Tobacco Shop"
I have made of myself what I did not know,
And what I could make of myself I did not make.
The disguise I put on was wrong.
They called my bluff straight away and I could not come clean, and lost myself.
When I wanted to take of the mask
It was stuck to my face.
When I took it off and looked in the mirror
I had aged.
This is from one of Pessoa's heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos.
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