A Writer's Ruminations

"Everything was summed up fiercely in my never uttering an initial scream—a first scream sets off all the others, the first scream of birth sets off a life, if I were to scream it would awaken thousands of screaming beings who would unleash a chorus of screams and horror along the rooftops. If I screamed, it would unleash existence—the existence of what? the existence of the world. For myself, I reverently feared the existence of the world."

— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (translated by Ronald Sousa)

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