A Breath of Life

by Clarice Lispector
Brazil
10 Dec 1920 // 9 Dec 1977
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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

 

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