“ - How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand. Clarice Lispector
“ Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words. Clarice Lispector
“ A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed compulsively, it is because he was extremely frightened. Above all, a justice which might exam… Clarice Lispector
“ What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. Clarice Lispector
“ I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed: movement is spirit. Prayer was a means of mutely and hidden from others reaching myself. When I prayed I achieved an emptiness of soul - an… Clarice Lispector
“ Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly… Clarice Lispector
“ The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockro… Clarice Lispector
“ But she didn’t want to rest! – Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a beast that had trained its steps to fit in its cage. Clarice Lispector
“ Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though u… Clarice Lispector
“ I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad. Clarice Lispector
“ It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I’m still to be born and I can… Clarice Lispector
“ Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall understand, oh maybe it will be on Hell's road that I shall be able to find what… Clarice Lispector
“ Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal. Clarice Lispector
“ The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul. Clarice Lispector
“ But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this world than to surrender completely. This is one of man's greatest sorrows. Clarice Lispector
“ Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed… Clarice Lispector
“ I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented. Clarice Lispector
