The Hour of the Star
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I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
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To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.
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Meanwhile, the clouds are white and the sky is blue. Why is there so much God? At the expense of men.
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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
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No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
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Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.
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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
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Clarice Lispector
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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