Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
