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Clarice Lispector Quotes: Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.
         

Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.


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