5 Quotes by Hilda Hilst

How should I kill in me the various forms of madness and be at the same time tender and lucid, creative and patient, and survive?

Quero ser lida em profundidade e não como distração, porque não leio os outros para me distrair mas para compreender, para me comunicar. Não quero ser distraída.

I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister and hiccuping and nothingness when you were abscent.

The shortness of life, the dullness of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know but very little. And again and again swift oblivion, the embezzler of knowledge and the enemy of memory, shakes out of the mind, in the course of time, even what we knew.

God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God.