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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.
Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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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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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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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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Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.
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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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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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