“Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.” — 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
“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
“We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.” — 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
“My life had been as continuous as death. Life is so continuous that we divide it into stages and call one of… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
