406 Quotes by Clarice Lispector

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

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

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.

Facts and particulars annoy me,

I, who called love my hope for love.

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

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

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

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.