“If I said that Brasília is beautiful, you would immediately see that I like the city.

But if I say that Brasília is the image of my insomnia, you would perceive it as an accusation; yet my insomnia is neither beautiful nor ugly: my insomnia is me, it is lived, it is my amazement.

The two architects did not set out to create beauty, that would have been easy; they constructed their amazement, leaving it unexplained.

Creating is not about understanding, it is a new mystery.”

Clarice Lispector