So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I read what I'd written and thought once again: from what violent chasms is my most intimate intimacy nourished, why does it… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“This is a record of woman’s entire life, written over a woman’s entire life. As such, it seems to be the first… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are… — 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
