I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. (Clarice Lispector)

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

Clarice Lispector

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