Clarice Lispector Quotes

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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

Clarice Lispector
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

Clarice Lispector
I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

Clarice Lispector
Putting my hand in someone else's has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don't have courage, I dream.

Clarice Lispector
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?

Clarice Lispector
Perhaps I have not been made for the pure, expansive waters, but for those which are small and readily accesible. And perhaps my craving for another source, which gives me the expression of someone in search of food, perhaps this craving is a whim - and nothing more. Yet surely those rare moments of self-confidence, of blind existence, of happiness as intense and serene as an organ playing - surely those moments prove that I am capable of fulfilling my quest and that this longing which consumes my whole being is not merely some whim? Moreover, that whim is the truth!

Clarice Lispector
Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

Clarice Lispector