I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words.Clarice Lispector
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The quote “I want the material of things”, can be used to show that humans are limited in their ability to understand what they see. We cannot see the whole picture of something, which is why we cannot grasp the whole idea of what is truly beautiful.
Source: The Passion According To G.h.
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