- "I pray to find my true path. But I discovered that I don’t give myself entirely to the prayer, I seem to know that the true path is with pain. There is a secret and to me incomprehensible law: only through suffering does one find happiness. I fear myself because I’m always ready to be able to suffer. If I don’t love myself I’ll be lost — because no one loves me to the point of being I, of being me. I must want myself in order to give something to myself. Must I be worth something? Oh protect me from myself, who persecutes me. I’m worth something in relation to others — but in relation to myself, I am nothing" — LISPECTOR, c.
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