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I write to save someone's life, probably my own
Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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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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Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam | She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
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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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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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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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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 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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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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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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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
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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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Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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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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The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector
I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
Clarice Lispector
