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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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Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam | She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
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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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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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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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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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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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The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
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I write to save someone's life, probably my own
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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
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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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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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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 hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
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