Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispectorwas a Brazilian writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 December 1920
CountryBrazil
crush song butterfly
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
passion blow love-is
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.
sadness luxury people
And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.
forget strawberries seasons
But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
horse simple men
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.
answers sometimes do-you-know
Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
truth-is wells sincerely
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
body whole
You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
giving truthful single-word
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
being-yourself strange
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
mean men ties
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?
simplicity effort achieve
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort
world molecules prehistory
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
knowing mind territory
I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.