Humans Quote by Clarice Lispector

“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 human.” quote by Clarice Lispector — Download Open 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 be human.”

Clarice Lispector

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“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…

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“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 it, to be human has been a constraint. The unknown awaits us, but I sense that that unknown is a totalization and will be the true humanization we long for. Am I speaking of death? no,…

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The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

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Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

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“her short stories read like perfect songs.”

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“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter how close together they are, there exists an interval of space, there exists a sensing between sensing—in the interstices of primordial matter there is the mysterious, fiery line that is the world’s breathing, and the world’s continual breathing…

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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

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“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…

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To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

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“I see that the wardrobe looks penetrable because it has a door. But when I open it, I see that penetration has been put off: since inside is also a wooden surface, like a closed door. Function of the wardrobe: to keep drag and disguises hidden. Nature: that of the inviolability of things. Relation to people: we look at ourselves…

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“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And even after you step on them they come apart slowly and keep on walking all the while. Even when they freeze, after they thaw out they keep on going. For three hundred and fifty million years,…

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