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“ Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from his arrows. It was different than love, I was finding out: I wanted him as a thirsty person desires water, without feelings, without even wanting to be happy. ”

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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

~ Clarice Lispector

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

~ Clarice Lispector

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

~ Clarice Lispector

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

~ Clarice Lispector