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Quotes from A hora da estrela — Clarice Lispector

1920–1977 Brazil

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Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? (p7 Benjamin Moser translation)

A hora da estrela (1977)

The truth is always some inner power without explanation. The more genuine part of my life is unrecognizable, extremely intimate and impossible to define. (p11)

A hora da estrela (1977)

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting (p17)

A hora da estrela (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clarice Lispector (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.