406 Quotes by Clarice Lispector

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.

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.

O mundo todo é ligeiramente chato, parece.O que importa na vida é estar junto de quem se gosta.

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky.

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

На повърхността на времето минутата може и да беше една, но под нея се простираха древни векове с мрачна сладост.

...една по-истинска дума би могла от ек на ек да събори в пропастта високите ми ледници.

(...) poucas vezes a gente encontra pessoas cuja alegria não seja somente digestiva.