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The way Clarice uses language is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Its like she completely unravels it so that you can see its insides, that’s the best way I can describe it. I simultaneously know exactly what she’s trying to say but yet I have no clue, because her sentences hold multiple meanings and no meaning at all. Whatever that means.

sahaar's review against another edition

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5.0

"i can’t sum myself up because you can’t add a chair and two apples. i am a chair and two apples. and i cannot be added up."

➳ 5 stars.

gabspina's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Não, nunca fui moderna. E acontece o seguinte: quando estranho uma pintura é aí que é pintura. E quando estranho a palavra é aí que ela alcança o sentido. E quando estranho a vida aí é que começa a vida.

librosamoralibros's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

sarahgamal666's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

I read this back in 2020 and since then I've opened the book 3 more times but only finished it twice. first time I read it I honestly was not expecting what I plunged into. it was absolutely nothing like I'd ever (or have ever) read before. it's poetry but in the form of steam of consciousness essays yet not prose. it's a book of thought and admiration of existence and the world.
Clarice focuses on the "now" and the instance and the creation of the unknown next instance "For I want to feel in my hands the quivering and lively nerve of the now and may that nerve resist me like a restless vein."
she speaks of the freedom that she doesn't know how to use "But I also want inconsistency. Freedom? it’s my final refuge, I forced myself to freedom and I bear it not like a talent but with heroism: I’m heroically free. And I want the flow. I’m a little frightened. For I don’t know where my freedom will lead me."
and how every moment of her being is built on savouring the delights of existing
"A fantastical world surrounds me and is me. What a fever: I can’t stop living."

this isn't really a philosophical book but not entirely not one because of the fleeting of each ideology that is mentioned those that stick honestly leave you wondering and thinking.

I cannot seriously ever get to the end of ranting about this book. it changed the way I view the world and my own existence and I'm eternally grateful for the girl who recommended it.

krammedshelf's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

this is so... relaxing and intimate.

itsyourpaldave's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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