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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?
Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?
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I work only with lost and founds.
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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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The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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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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All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
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I write to save someone's life, probably my own
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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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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
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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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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
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And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.
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But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.
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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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Facts and particulars annoy me.
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