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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
Writing, Long, Madness
Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
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.