But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking. Clarice Lispector
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  1. I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

  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...

  5. Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

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