"I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth."

-- Clarice Lispector

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“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest”
“The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.”
“You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”
“I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!”
“Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”
“Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.”
“The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc Antony, whom he thought was irreparably dismantling the Republic of Rome. Those speeches are powerful because they're not only really pointed but they're thrillingly beautiful - and that's precisely what made them dangerous: the fact that people wanted to read them.”

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