Clarice Lispector, The Passion According To G.H. Quotes

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.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

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

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.