18 Quotes by Clarice Lispector about Life
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Don't you remember you once told me: 'today's pain will be your joy tomorrow; there is nothing that escapes transfiguration.' Don't you remember? Maybe it wasn't exactly like that...
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I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
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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.
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Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
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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.
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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
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The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.
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A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.
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Whoever wishes may accompany me: the road is long, it's painful but it's lived.
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