“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

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Brazilian writer 1920–1977

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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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