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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.
Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector
Age: 56 †
Born: 1920
Born: December 10
Died: 1977
Died: December 9
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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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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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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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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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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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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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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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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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