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“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I’d lost a third leg that up till then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod. I lost that third leg. And I went back to being a person I never was. I went back to having something I never had: just two legs. I know I can only walk with two legs. But I feel the useless absence of that third leg and it scares me, it was the leg that made me something findable by myself, and without even having to look for myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“I shall never be able to understand it, but there must be someone who can. And I shall have to create that someone who can inside myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Space, like time, gives birth to forgetfulness, but does so by removing an individual from all relationships and placing him in a free and pristine state--indeed, in but a moment it can turn a pedant and philistine into something like a vagabond. Time, they say, is water from the river Lethe, but alien air is a similar drink; and if its effects are less profound, it works all the more quickly.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain