For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
Clarice LispectorThings were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
Clarice LispectorEven great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.
Clarice Lispector