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
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  2. In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

  3. But the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

  4. I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me...

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