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“And now-now all I can do is light a cigarette and go home. My God, I just remembered that we die. But-but me too?! Don't forge that for now it's strawberry season. Yes.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother creator of men. Certainly it is difficult to feel compassion for the one who gives birth to man.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“you shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict. In the love between a man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other. They form an alliance. It is, in a way, self-love.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934