Clarice Lispector Quotes

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• Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
• The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
• The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of…
• In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
• What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be…
• Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in…
• I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
• But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this…
• For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales…
• Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior…
• And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people…
• So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
• I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
• I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do…
• Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
• Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
• I work only with lost and founds.
• Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
• I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

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