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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”

Clarice Lispector

Source: A Hora Da Estrela

“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.”

Clarice Lispector book The Passion According to G.H.

Source: The Passion According to G.H.

“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?”

Clarice Lispector book Near to the Wild Heart

Source: Near to the Wild Heart

“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”

Clarice Lispector

The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 159

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