Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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because, I too, know what thirst is

I don’t want this house. I want a justice that would have given a chance to something pure and full of helplessness in Mineirinho—that thing that moves mountains and is the same as what made him love a woman “like a madman,” and the same that led him through a doorway so narrow that it slashes into…

—p.139 Covert Joy: Selected Stories Mineirinho (137) by Clarice Lispector
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my job is to live out my pleasures and my pains

And thus I don’t understand the egg. I only understand a broken egg: I crack it on the frying pan. In this indirect way I give myself to the egg’s existence: my sacrifice is reducing myself to my personal life. I turned my pleasure and my pain into my hidden destiny. And having only one’s own life …

—p.95 The Egg and the Chicken (89) by Clarice Lispector
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the pettiness of a private life of precautions

Pale, kicked out of a Church, she looked at the stationary earth from which she’d departed and back to which she’d been delivered. She straightened out her skirts primly. She didn’t look at anyone. Contrite as on that day when in the middle of everyone the entire contents of her purse had spilled o…

—p.79 The Buffalo (75) by Clarice Lispector