Don’t try to make yourself into somebody perfect
A letter of sisterly advice from Clarice Lispector
Born in what is now Ukraine in 1920, acclaimed novelist Clarice Lispector was still a child when she and her family emigrated to Brazil as a result of the Russian Civil War. She lived there for the majority of her life. In 1948, she wrote the following letter to one of her t…
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