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Clarice Lispector

“Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.”

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
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The Passion According to G.H. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
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