Clarice Lispector

“E nunca antes eu me havia deixado levar, a menos que soubesse para o quê.”

— Clarice Lispector

“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.”

— Clarice Lispector

“I, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark and go out, alight and go out, spark and go out.”

— Clarice Lispector

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

— Clarice Lispector

“Estou tão assustada que só poderei aceitar que me perdi se imaginar que alguém me está dando a mão.”

— Clarice Lispector

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

— Clarice Lispector

“he thinks that flowers are hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.”

— Clarice Lispector

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but…

— Clarice Lispector

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought…

— Clarice Lispector

“It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or…

— Clarice Lispector

“Now I understand what a trial is. Trial: it means that life is trying me. But trial: means that I too am…

— Clarice Lispector

“But now that I knew that suffering had been my happiness, I asked myself if I wasn't fleeing toward a God because…

— Clarice Lispector

“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory…

— Clarice Lispector

“I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because…

— Clarice Lispector

“Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in…

— Clarice Lispector

“I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a…

— Clarice Lispector

“With your teacher, she said, playing with intimacy, and she was white and smooth. Not miserable and not knowing anything, not abandoned,…

— Clarice Lispector

“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter…

— Clarice Lispector

“I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if…

— Clarice Lispector

“We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being…

— Clarice Lispector

“Reality doesn't surprise me. But that's not true: I suddenly feel such a hunger for the "thing to really happen" that I…

— Clarice Lispector

“I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at…

— Clarice Lispector

“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

“When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.”

— Clarice Lispector

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”

— Clarice Lispector

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

— Clarice Lispector

“De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.”

— Clarice Lispector

“I'm going to start my exercise in courage, living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage.”

— Clarice Lispector

But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted…

— Clarice Lispector

“I want to seize my is. And like a bird I sing hallelujah into the air. And my song belongs to no…

— Clarice Lispector

“E, se atravessara o amor e o seu inferno, penteava-se agora diante do espelho, por um instante sem nenhum mundo no coração.…

— Clarice Lispector

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage…

— Clarice Lispector

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel…

— Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better…

— Clarice Lispector

“A gargalhada era aterrorizadora porque acontecia no passado e só a imaginação maléfica a trazia para o presente, saudade do que poderia…

— Clarice Lispector

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and…

— 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…

— Clarice Lispector

“Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it…

— Clarice Lispector

“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the…

— Clarice Lispector