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A Breath of Life
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Clarice Lispector
Brazil
10 Dec 1920 // 9 Dec 1977
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On Writing:
I write as if to save somebody�s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
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A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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