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“She looked at herself and lightly thought: so young and already rusted.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“I’m about to begin halfway saying that—
—that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Will this story someday become my own congealing? How do I know. If there's any truth in it—and of course the story is true though invented—may everyone recognize it in himself because all of us are one and he who is not poor in money is poor in spirit or longing because he lacks something more precious than gold—there are those who lack the delicate essential.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star