Her former youth seemed as strange to her as one of life's illnesses. She had gradually emerged from it to discover that one could also live without happiness: abolishing it, she had found a legion of people, previously invisible, who lived the way a person works – with persistence, continuity, joy.

— Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics, #15) (Page 19)