"I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a secret: life is deadly. I'll have to in...

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
~ Clarice Lispector ~












I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...
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