Clarice Lispector Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.
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You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.
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Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.
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The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
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Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
