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Clarice Lispector

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Clarice Lispector Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Clarice Lispector

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Birthday: December 10, 1920

Death: December 9, 1977

Educated At: Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Brazil

Occupations: Journalist, Translator, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Spouse: Maury Gurgel Valente

Total quotes: 2

“I wouldn't know how to see whatever I saw: the explanation of an enigma is the mere repetition of the enigma. What are you? and the answer is: You are. What do you exist? and the answer is: what you exist.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.(New Directions Paperbook)

Tagged: Existential Crisis, Existentialism

“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.(New Directions Paperbook)

Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Choices

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