I, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark and go…

“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

“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

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

— Clarice Lispector

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

— Clarice Lispector

“her short stories read like perfect songs.”

— Clarice Lispector

“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

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

— 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 for us…

— Clarice Lispector

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

— Clarice Lispector

Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

— Clarice Lispector

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

“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

“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

“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

“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