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The cost of living is the curse of everyday life… I know how to do business but I don’t want to because my business is books.”
-Carolina Maria de Jesus
I’m going to have a little house
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‘how she tormented neurons’
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absurd parentheses, with footnotes, so convoluted, so contrived, and others quiet, almost severe, that barely provoke a raised eyebrow, or a tremor of the lips, footnotes you’ll never forget, every time you remember them you aspire to repose, claim the extreme unction, the ultimate step forward, toward the abyss.”
-Hilda Hilst
The Obscene Madame D
‘somewhat absurd to be playing at thinking on that afternoon’
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‘Look, at all of you, with that triumphant attitude, look: I can vibrate, vibrate like the taut string of a harp. I can suffer with more intensity than any of you gentlemen… And do you know why? Because I know I exist.'”
-Clarice Lispector
Excerpt (“Trecho”)
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I transformed myself independently of my consciousness and when I opened my eyes the poison was circulating through my blood irremediably, its power already ancient.”
-Clarice Lispector
Obsession (“Obsessão”)
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I always kept a quotation mark to my left and another to my right. Somehow ‘as if it wasn’t me’ was broader than if it were—an inexistent life possessed me entirely and kept me busy like an invention.”
-Clarice Lispector
The Passion According to G.H.
near & far
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I don’t feel madness in my wish to bite stars, but the earth still exists. And because the first truth is in the earth and the body. If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me. Here I am back at the body. Return to my body. {…} Where does music go when it’s not playing? — she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: may they make a harp of my nerves when I die.”
-Clarice Lispector
Near to the Wild Heart
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