Clarice Lispector quotes

Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? (Clarice Lispector)
I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me. View quote
Clarice Lispector
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. View quote
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. View quote
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It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of. View quote
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Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? View quote
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. View quote
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Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea. View quote
Clarice Lispector
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. View quote
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Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting. (Clarice Lispector)
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. View quote
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At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words. View quote
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing. View quote
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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. View quote
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How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her? View quote
Clarice Lispector
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. View quote
Clarice Lispector
You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body. View quote
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But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes. (Clarice Lispector)
I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me. View quote
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For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I work only with lost and founds. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed. View quote
Clarice Lispector