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whirl of being alive in her, which was primitive and direct

No! I don’t want to be Platonic in relation to myself. I am deeply defeated by the world in which I live. And I separated myself from people because of my defeat and the idea that others were also

She had succumbed to an irresponsible desire to be possessed without being connected to the man 
Nonetheless she had to struggle against her tendency to divinize man, she admired him so. Human beings Man in contrast with woman in man, he felt the

She who was urbanized and industrialized but an agrarian inheritance had come from way back
No, no, I don’t want to be me only because I have my own self. What I want is the extreme connection between the land of Brazil and me.

the creative. We cannot be spectators to our own fate. In a time of such enormous changes in all areas of our national life, we cannot look to the past for the answers. We must risk ourselves in finding new answers or we will disintegrate psychologically and morally.”

(Henry A. Kissinger – Harvard Center for International Affairs)
(What worries you most about America today)“The extraordinary passivity of our attitudes. Our rejection of the tragic aspect of life. We assure you can get what you want by wanting it badly enough. We tend to turn all our problems into administrative ones. We seem to be willing to do anything so long as it engages us only between the hours of nine and five. I don’t believe you can substitute good intentions for profound thought or for the anguish which is inseparable from

Why this cerebral part that I don’t need? he said. A novelist should not be intelligent except to rewrite the book. Matisse repainted 7, 8 times a canvas.

Color charme cendre (Wella)

Pierre de [Lescure]:
When I asked what he thought of [me] (more or less this) he answered: what was surprising is a certain tendency for me to become cerebral, (which normally can’t be intelligent), when everything in the novel is by a femme passiveé. And when he saw my we had the fight by letter, the passiveé side was confirmed. When he saw the portrait, it was confirmed again. And seeing me now it was confirmed again. For

could turn transform itself into a hysterical and contemplative solitude as touching as it would be in this situation, she sought not to communicate with the world through her own solitude.

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*Note: All passages in italics were originally written in English.