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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

Clarice Lispector

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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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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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Facts and particulars annoy me.
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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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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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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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