Lispector lines from The Stream of Life

September 9, 2009

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“Parambolic–whatever that word means. Parambolic that I am. I can’t sum myself up because it’s impossible to add up a chair and two apples. I’m a chair and two apples. And I don’t add up.” – 60, The Stream of Life, Clarice Lispector

“To such an extent is death only a future event that there are those who can’t stand it and commit suicide. It’s as if life said the following: and there simply wasn’t any following. Only the colon, waiting. We keep this secret in muteness to hide the fact that every instant is fatal. The object-chair interests me. I love objects insofar as they do not love me.” – 70


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