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“The future of technology threatens to destroy all that is human in mankind, but technology doesn’t reach madness; and so that’s where the human part of mankind has sought refuge.”

literally Lispector is obsessed with rats 😖

“loving the impure was our deepest nostalgia”

“The Imitation of The Rose” is one of the most stunning short stories I have ever read.

"I tell you that there is a joy in renouncing the pain of the passions. Because to desire them is to desire pain and not contentment and those who are noble feel in themselves the necessity to sound out their capacity to burn. And I tell you that what matters is not burning ardently, what matters is repose. What matters is coming to understand oneself and life through reason, which distinguishes us from animals."

"Sometimes I'm distracted in church, praying. And suddenly the bells begin to dance as if they were singing a wedding and my prayer grows strong, the saints glow, my soul is rejuvenated and I get so happy that I don't even understand what I'm praying."

“Desires are ghosts that dissolve as soon as you light the lamp of good sense.”

“The best way for a feeling to lose its perfume and stop intoxicating us is to expose it to the sun.”

“I had been wandering through grottos for many long years and was suddenly discovering the radiant passage to the sea.”

“A dense veil isolated me from the world and, without my knowing it, an abyss separated me from myself.”