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Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage
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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
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The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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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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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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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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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
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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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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
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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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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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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
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Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
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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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Coherence, I don't want it any more. Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder. I can only guess at it through a vehement incoherence.
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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
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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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I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
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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.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Clarice Lispector
Born:
December 10, 1920
Died:
December 9, 1977
(aged 56)
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