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"Angela has all this fairy-like illumination -- and while she grows accustomed slow and mute and majestic and extremely delicate and fatal -- to being a woman -- she's too modest for it, too fleeting to be defined. she told me that once on the street she approached an officer -- and explained that she did so because he should know about things and to top it off was armed, which filled her with respect. so she said to the officer: sir, could you tell me, if you please, when does springtime begin? Angela is mad. but she has a mathematical logic in her apparent madness. and She has a lot of fun, that scandalous creature. she gets too keen and then doesn’t know what to do with herself. to Hell with her. between the "yes" and the "no" there is only one way: choosing. Angela chose "yes." She is so free that one day she’ll end up in jail. "In jail for what?" "For excessive freedom." "But isn’t that freedom innocent?" "Yes. even naive." "So why prison?" "Because freedom offends.""

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-- from "a breath of life"

-- novel by clarice lispector

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