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Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born."

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of."

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.




Clarice Lispector Quotes: "The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort"

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort




Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?"

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?"

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences."

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.




Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given."

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?"

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting"

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting



Clarice Lispector 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."

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 Quotes: "No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel."

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.




Clarice Lispector Quotes: "You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body."

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning."

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?"

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself."

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury."

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "To think is an act. To feel is a fact."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I work only with lost and founds."

I work only with lost and founds.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "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."

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.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing."

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me."

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy."

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers."

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed"

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant."

Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage"

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting."

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest."

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I write to save someone's life, probably my own"

I write to save someone's life, probably my own



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "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 the top notes."

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 the top notes.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them."

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "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."

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.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I, who called love my hope for love."

I, who called love my hope for love.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Facts and particulars annoy me."

Facts and particulars annoy me.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots."

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



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason."

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths."

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction."

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep."

It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Long live the dead because we live in them."

Long live the dead because we live in them.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart."

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.



Clarice Lispector Quotes: "Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die."

Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.