Itā a beautiful and heart breaking memoir that changed the way I view the world. The perspective this book gave me is incredible, and taught me so much about how to be grateful, and how to live happily in the moment despite the darkness that often surrounds us.
Dec 14, 2024
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I want to thank Liv for giving me my favourite book.
Clarice has been my favourite author since I was 14, reading what she writes always felt like reading my thoughts and beliefs about life on a page as if they had been scooped out of my brain and elegantly placed in a book.
This is the only text I had never read and known to be her most regarded work The Passion According to G.H. takes the status of a masterpiece In the Brasilian Literature scenario. I wanted to make sure to read it when I felt ready, ready to say goodbye to Clarice, as I turned 21 one of my best friends gifted me this book and I knew it was time.
The history is simple, a woman is cleaning her house, and she finds a drawing, a roach and God. From there Clarice takes your hand and leads you into the journey of finding meaning.
According to Aristotle, the end of all human actions resides in the search for happiness. This book describes that in the most genius way. Heaven and hell are portrayed as being a place on earth, a place on us. I doubt that two people can read this book and tell you the same history, it is highly subjective you can take away from it whatever exists in your mind.
My biggest takeaway was that hell and even are inside of us, by wishing for things you don't have you must go through war to achieve them, war is hell. By wishing for things that you already have (like seeing your friends on the weekend, talking to your grandparents, baking a cake) you find heaven. Heaven is in the simple, it is in the recognition that you were given more than what you could have asked for. Love is the realization of getting someone you wished for through passion, it is tedious, complete and beautiful. You can find content in love, and you no longer wish.
That is what I read, but please don't let my blurry vision take you down a path. I am sure that if you read it your life and experiences would lead you to many different conclusions.
This is a book that I would love to give to everyone I know and ask them what it is about.
That is the beauty and geniality of Clarice.
"Humility is much more than a feeling, it is reality seen with a minimum of good sense".
Jun 8, 2024
Amongst the abundance of an anonymous book exchange, it was this book that left an impressive oil stainā¦
It taught me how to translate thoughts as a compass and not enemiesā¦offering new but functional perspectiveā¦
ā¢ The main character is hopeless and defiant in every human way
ā¢ The obstacles merge with magic and science
ā¢ The language is inviting and playful (look into āTroposphereā)
I was preserved in a lawless comfort the entire read and I have mourned many times since finishing itā¦
Sep 30, 2024
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my mission in life is to get more people to read this book so we can gush over it together. so tender so spacious so clarifying.
āWhat reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, togetherā¦It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.ā
Jan 26, 2024
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obviously love the book, but the old covers that reference the movies, that are also getting old, make for double the nostalgia.
Dec 14, 2024
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you get to keep your fingers warm and act like a penguin with flippers
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