Status Updates From The Imitation of the Rose

„How did I never realize I'm a beggar too? I've never asked for spare change but I beg for the love of my husband who has two mistresses, I beg for God's sake for people to think I'm pretty, cheerful and acceptable, and my soul's clothing is in tatters.?“

„Now she understood why she'd married the first time and was auctioned off: who'll bid higher? who'll bid higher? Sold, then. Yes, she'd married the first time to the man who 'bid the highest,' she accepted him because he was rich and slightly above her social class. She had sold herself…

„Her head was full of parties, parties, parties. Celebrating what? Celebrating someone else's wound? One thing united them: both had a vocation for money. The beggar spent every cent he had, whereas Carla's husband, the banker, accumulated money. His bread and butter was the Stock Market, and inflation, and profit. The beggar's bread and butter was his round gaping wound…

“Angela left the train.
Naturally this hadn't the slightest importance: there are people who are always led to regret, it's a trait of certain guilty natures. But what kept disturbing her was the vision of the old woman when she awoke, the image of her astonished face across from Angela's empty seat. After all who knew if she had fallen asleep out of trust in her.
Trust in the world.”

“Meanwhile there was Angela Pralini effervescing like
the bubbles in Caxambu mineral water, she was one: all of a sudden. Just like that: suddenly. Suddenly what? Just. suddenly. Zero. Nothing. She was thirty-seven and planning at any moment to start her life over. Like the litle effervescent bubbles in Caxambu water. The seven letters in Pralini gave her strength. The seven letters in Angela made her anonymous.”

„ Angela Pralini had thoughts so deep there were no words to express them. It was a lie to say you could only have one thought at a time: she had many thoughts that intersected and were multiple.”

„But then it so happened that the woman also had the following thought: it was too late to have a destiny. She thought she would readily trade places with another being. That's when it occurred to her that there wasn't anyone to trade places with: no matter what she was, she was she and couldn't be transformed into another unique individual. Everyone was unique. So was Senhora Jorge B. Xavier.“

„I pick up another egg in the kitchen, I break its shell and shape. And from this precise moment there was never an egg. It is absolutely essential that I be a busy and distracted person. I am necessarily one of those people who refuse. I belong to that Masonic society of those who once saw the egg and refused it as a way to protect it. We are the ones who abstain from destroying, and by doing so are consumed…“

The philosophy around the egg
„in the morning in the kitchen on the table I see the egg.
Hook at the egg with a single gaze. Immediately I perceive that one cannot be seeing an egg. Seeing an egg never remains in the present: as soon as I see an egg it already becomes having seen an egg three millennia ago. - At the very instant of seeing the egg it is the memory of an egg…“

well… don’t know why they had to add that in the end but sure whatever