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She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.
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The word is my fourth dimension.
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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
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I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is.
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The greatness of every human being.
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For one has the right to shout.So, I am shouting. — Clarice Lispector
I am only true when I'm alone.
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Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.
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She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.
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But I've never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl.
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- How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand. — Clarice Lispector
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
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But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.
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Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument.
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Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
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Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog.
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Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.
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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?— Clarice Lispector
I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.
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Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.
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Perhaps love is to give one's own solitude to others? For it is the very last thing we have to offer.from "The Gift — Clarice Lispector
It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.
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How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)
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I always give names to things
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I don't want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.
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Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?
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She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
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The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.
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Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.
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Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season
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Truth is always an inexplicable inner contact. Truth is unrecognizable. So it doesn't exist? No, For men it doesn't exist.
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What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
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I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
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Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.
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The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don't know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.
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Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.
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Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
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Facts and particulars annoy me.
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Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.
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I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad.
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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style
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Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
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Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.
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Ah, hand holding mine, if I hadn't needed so much of myself to shape my life, I would already have had life!
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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.
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I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand.
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
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Meanwhile the clouds are white & the sky is all blue. Why so much God? Why not a little for men.
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I, who called love my hope for love.
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As soon as you discover the truth it's already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is it? Reply: it's not.
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I write to save someone's life, probably my own
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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.
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Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.
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The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
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I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
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But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
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I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.
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I must not forget, I thought, that I have been happy, that I am being happier than one can be. But I forgot, I've always forgotten.
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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
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Living leaves me atremble.
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It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.
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Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort
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To think is an act. To feel is a fact.
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Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.
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She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.
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I know that what I am feeling is serious and has the power to destroy me.
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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
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Saying meaningless words is my great freedom.
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The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
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What I have to say is superfluous for anyone who often feels the pangs of hunger
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The docks went to the heart of her life.
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God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.
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Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.
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Passed (it strikes me that this God was extremely merciful to her: He gave her what He took away).
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Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
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If the girl knew that my own joy also comes from my deepest sadness and that sadness was a failed joy.
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Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
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I am well aware that each day is a day stolen from death. I am not
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I work only with lost and founds.
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My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.
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