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“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
― Clarice Lispector

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch