“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”

— Clarice Lispector, book A Breath of Life

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Brazilian writer 1920–1977

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