"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"

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Source: Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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Clarice Lispector

Novelist, Short Story Writer

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer known for her introspective novels and short stories that explore themes of identity, love, and existence.

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"Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream."

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