Zara

“And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life.”
― Clarice Lispector, Aprendizaje o El libro de los placeres

“There could only be a meeting of their mysteries if one surrendered to the other: the surrender of two unknowable worlds done with the trust with which two understandings might surrender to each other.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Lori is alone. The salty sea is not alone because it's salty and big, and that's an achievement of Nature. Lori's courage is that not knowing herself, she still presses on, and acting without knowing yourself demands courage.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin