For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If … - Clarice Lispector

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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Clarice Lispector

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

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Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

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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?

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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

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