“Thoreau found it distressing … to watch his fellowmen devote all their energies to making money for some distant future. That people should give some thought to their future was no bad thing. But ‘Do try to improve the present,’ he would exclaim. Before adding ‘We are living now.’ Thoreau sadly observed: ‘Men spend all their lives hoarding treasures which will be eaten by worms, eroded by rust, or fall into the hands of thieves.’
The message is clear: do not sacrifice today for tomorrow. If you are unhappy at present, do something about it now, because we only exist from one now to the next.”
—–Clarice Lispector
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José António Barreiros // April 19, 2009 at 9:09 am |
Fantastic!
I wrote a post in Portugal this morning about Clarice Lispector. Some moments after an alert from Google informed me you have written also about her! Where in this world?
See mine: http://haialispector.blogspot.com/2009/04/um-bicho-esquisito.html?zx=d7752bd1a30a6315
rousjh // April 19, 2009 at 1:26 pm |
Thank you. I looked at your blog, but unfortunately I do not read Portuguese. I had read a novel by Lispector and only recently started reading her Cronicas (in translation).
An American, I can only read French and some Magyar. Lispector came to my attention through a Brazilian friend.
José António Barreiros // April 19, 2009 at 2:27 pm |
Great! A good Sunday! It is sunshine here!