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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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Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam | She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
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And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
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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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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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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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I work only with lost and founds.
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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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I write to save someone's life, probably my own
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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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Facts and particulars annoy me.
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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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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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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.
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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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And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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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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