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The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”

“No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.”

“Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”

“But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”

“Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”

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

“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”

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angels, humanity-and-society, essential, life-universe-creation, death, yes, believe, self-discovery, truth, life, self-reflection, dream, literature, self-doubt

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