Quotes by Clarice Lispector

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction. — Clarice Lispector
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to — Clarice Lispector
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. — Clarice Lispector
And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people — Clarice Lispector
But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as a — Clarice Lispector
It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itsel — Clarice Lispector
Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at — Clarice Lispector
And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is — Clarice Lispector
Arriving back home, I didn’t start to read it. I pretended I didn’t have it, in order to have, later, the shock of disco — Clarice Lispector
Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went durin — Clarice Lispector
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. — 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
It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable. — Clarice Lispector
When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. — Clarice Lispector
I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a t — Clarice Lispector
Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to express ends — Clarice Lispector
What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sinceri — Clarice Lispector
I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a secret: l — Clarice Lispector
There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love — Clarice Lispector
Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of — Clarice Lispector