Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea. Clarice Lispector More Quotes by Clarice Lispector More Quotes From Clarice Lispector My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. Clarice Lispector single-word truthful giving You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body. Clarice Lispector body whole At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words. Clarice Lispector drinking dream school I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. Clarice Lispector crush butterfly song For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting. Clarice Lispector shouting Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. Clarice Lispector brazil roots And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me. Clarice Lispector knows want 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 one-day silence reality Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed Clarice Lispector ems angel believe But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know. Clarice Lispector eye darkness two 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 ties men mean And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes. Clarice Lispector light home people 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 luxury sadness people A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free. Clarice Lispector horse simple men I work only with lost and founds. Clarice Lispector lost-and-found found lost I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. Clarice Lispector instantaneous world Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life. Clarice Lispector ignorance self law 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 intuition distance sadness Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing. Clarice Lispector mourn knows So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. Clarice Lispector answers writing long
