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Benjamin Moser is a German writer and translator, known for his translations of French literature and philosophy. Born on September 14, 1976, he graduated from the University of Heidelberg with a major in comparative literature.

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“As time goes by, especially in the last few years, I’ve lost the knack of being a person. I no longer know how one is supposed to be. And an entirely new kind of ‘solitude of not belonging’ has started invading me like ivy on a wall.”

Solitude Depersonalization

Book:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand a form to turn them into literature.”

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Book:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Source: Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

“It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.”

Ifs World Should Mean Lasts Literature One Thing Drink Shoes Globalization Soda Last Place Homogeneity

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“I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.”

Reason Madness Mathematics

Book:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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“Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.”

Knows Different Know How Talent Vocation

Book:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Source: Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

“There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.”

Men War States Individual Mankind Crime Stronger

Book:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Source: Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”

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Born: September 14, 1976
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