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— You know what else I learned? They said you should be glad to be alive. So I am. I also heard a pretty song, I even cried. — A samba? — I think so. And sung by a man named Caruso who they said already died. His voice was so gentle it even hurt to hear it. The song was called “Una furtiva lacrima”. I don’t know why they didn’t say lagrima. “Una furtiva lacrima” had been the only really beautiful thing in her life. Wiping away her own tears she tried to sing what she heard. But her voice was as crude and out of tune as she was. When she heard it she started to cry. It was the first time shed ever cried, she didnt know she had so much water in her eyes. She cried, blew her nose no longer knowing what she was crying about. She wasn’t crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she’d accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.
(The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector)















