Quotes by : Clarice Lispector

There were two ways of looking at it: imagining that it was far away and big, in the first place; in....

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must....

Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality....

My world today is raw, it is a world of great vital difficulty. Because, more than a star, today I want....

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form.....

Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.....

Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What....

A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed....

I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell....

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want....