"I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort"

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Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

Clarice Lispector

#Simplicity Quotes #Effort Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.”
“It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.”
“Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.”
“But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.”

Source : "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.
“Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?”

Source : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!”
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”
“...the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages...”

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