Clarice Lispector, from Miss Algrave
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Never again shall I understand anything I say. Since how could I speak without the word lying for me? How could I speak except timidly like this: life just is for me. Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it.
Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
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clarice lispector why this world: a biography of clarice lispector \\ fernando pessoa i have more souls than one: i see boats moving (tr. jonathan griffin)
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Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship or, The Book of Delights written in 1969
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— clarice lispector, the stream of life
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"I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love. As an answer. Impersonal love, it love, is love: even the love that doesn't work out, even the love that ends."
Água Viva, by Clarice Lispector
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She watched dawn arrive in a burst of pink. In the fog the first little birds began to chirp sweetly, not yet frenzied. God was illuminating her body.
Clarice Lispector, from Miss Algrave
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Clarice Lispector, from “That’s Where I’m Going”, Soulstorm: Stories (tr. Alexis Levitin)
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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?
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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