406 Quotes by Clarice Lispector

Whoever wishes may accompany me: the road is long, it’s painful but it’s lived.

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.

I am finding myself: it’s deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I’ll tell you a secret: life is deadly. I’ll have to interrupt everything to tell you this: death is the impossible and intangible. Death is just future to such an extent that there are those who cannot bear it and commit suicide. It’s as life said the following: and there simply was no following.

Hers is an art that makes us want to know the woman; she is a woman who makes us want to know her art.

They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.

Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out – I can no longer see things clearly – my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth.

Living leaves me atremble.

This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are already formed. Those who know that the approach, of whatever it may be, happens gradually and painstakingly – even passing through the opposite of what it approaches. They who, only they, will slowly come to understand that this book takes nothing from no one. To me, for example, the character G. H. gave bit by bit a difficult joy; but it is called joy. C.