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Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam | She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Clarice Lispector

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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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Helen Palmer
Teresa Quadros
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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Facts and particulars annoy me.
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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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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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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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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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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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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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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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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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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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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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