Clarice Lispector

“Long live the dead because we live in them.”

— 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

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

— Clarice Lispector

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be…

— Clarice Lispector

“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed…

— Clarice Lispector

“Meanwhile, the clouds are white and the sky is blue. Why is there so much God? At the expense of men.”

— 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

“The only destiny with which we are born is the destiny of ritual. I have been calling "mask" a lie, and it…

— Clarice Lispector

“My old life was necessary to me because it was precisely its error that made me take up imagining a hope that,…

— Clarice Lispector

“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Perhaps I now knew that I would never be equal to life myself, but that my life was equal to life. I…

— Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are…

— Clarice Lispector

“But there are questions I asked myself as a child and that were never answered, they still echo mournfully: did the world…

— Clarice Lispector

“Have I somehow perhaps been in a hurry to experience everything I would have to experience as soon as possible, so that…

— Clarice Lispector

“Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season”

— 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

“To know when to quit. Whether to give up--this is often the question facing the gambler. No one is taught the art…

— 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

“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take…

— Clarice Lispector

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”

— Clarice Lispector

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

— Clarice Lispector

“But this is not eternity, it is condemnation. How opulent this silence is. It is the accumulation of centuries. It is the…

— Clarice Lispector

“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves…

— Clarice Lispector

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

— Clarice Lispector

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

— Clarice Lispector