beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quicknes… - Clarice Lispector

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beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes. (p37)

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Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist and a translator. A legendary figure in Brazil, renowned for her uncommon and unique writing style, her great personal beauty — the American translator Gregory Rabassa recalled being "flabbergasted to meet that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," — and her eccentric personality.

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Alternative Names: Helen Palmer • Teresa Quadros • Хая Пинхасiвна Лиспектор

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Twelve years weigh on a person like pounds of lead. The days melt into one another, merge to form one whole block, a big anchor. And the person is lost. ("A fuga")

She feared the days, one after another, without surprises, of pure devotion to a man. To a man who would freely use of all of his wife’s forces for his own bonfire, in a serene, unconscious sacrifice of everything that wasn’t his own personality. (p80)

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes. (p37) - Clarice Lispector

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