Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“- How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Because the best phrase and always still the youngest, was: goodness makes me want to be sick. Goodness was lukewarm and light.… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it. As for me, I substitute… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Of my own death, yes, I was indeed aware, for death was the future and is imaginable, and I had always had… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Will the man of the future understand us as we are today? He distractedly, with some distracted tenderness, will pet our head… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Have I somehow perhaps been in a hurry to experience everything I would have to experience as soon as possible, so that… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to believe that I shall die. Because I'm bubbling in cold freshness. My life will be very long because each… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being doesn't do… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter how close… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or for us… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“I see that the wardrobe looks penetrable because it has a door. But when I open it, I see that penetration has been put… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
“Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share
