Clarice Lispector Quotes

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• Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
• For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it…
• A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,…
• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
• Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of…
• Facts and particulars annoy me,
• Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
• Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.
• I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
• I write to save someone's life, probably my own
• I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
• To think is an act. To feel is a fact.
• I, who called love my hope for love.
• You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
• The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
• Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.
• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law --…
• And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
• I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort
• Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

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