Clarice Lispector she was one of the best-known female writers in Brazilian literature. In addition to being a writer, Clarice was also a journalist.
Despite being born in Ukraine, of Jewish descent, she has spent most of her life in Brazil. She arrived with her family on Brazilian soil in 1921, one year after her birth. The writer became a naturalized Brazilian and claimed to be from Pernambuco.
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Clarice Lispector's literature belonging to the third phase of modernism. She wrote sentences and poems about life, love, dreams, happiness and freedom.
See below 30 quotes by Clarice Lispector!
Even cutting out the defects themselves can be dangerous. You never know what defect is holding up our entire building.
Surrender, as I surrendered. Immerse yourself in what you don't know like I dove. Don't worry about understanding, living surpasses any understanding.
I am as you see me. I can be light as a breeze or strong as a wind, it depends on when and how you see me pass.
Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of stormy rains or the great loose winds, because I too am the dark of the night.
I suppose that understanding myself is not a matter of intelligence, but of feeling, of getting in touch… Or touch, or don't touch.
And if you think I am weird, respect too. Even I was forced to respect myself.
Make no mistake, simplicity is only achieved through hard work.
I don't have time for anything else, being happy consumes me a lot.
Freedom is little. What I desire still has no name.
She believed in angels, and because she believed in them, they existed.
Don't correct me. Punctuation is the breath of the sentence, and my sentence breathes like that. And if you think I'm weird, respect that too. Even I was forced to respect myself.
But there is the life that is to be intensely lived. There is love. It has to be lived to the last drop. Without any fear. Do not kill.
I have many faces. One is almost pretty, one is almost ugly. I'm a what? An almost everything.
Don't worry about understanding, living surpasses any understanding.
We have the right to let the boat run. Things work out, you don't have to push so hard.
But the worst is the sudden weariness of it all. It looks like plenty, it looks like you've had everything and you don't want anything else.
I don't want to have the terrible limitation of someone who lives only on what is likely to make sense. Not me: I want an invented truth.
I didn't ask for too many things so as not to confuse God who at midnight on New Year's is so busy.
The only truth is I'm alive. Honestly, I live. Who am I? Well, that's too much.
Now I know: I'm alone. Me and my freedom that I don't know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude.
Sometimes I get sick of people. Then it passes and I'm all curious and attentive again. And this is it.
And I don't even understand what I understand: because I'm infinitely bigger than myself, and I don't reach myself.
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a big heart to include the thorns.
Is love giving the other one's own loneliness as a gift? Because it's the last thing you can give of yourself.
It's wrong for you to stop doing something afraid of what others will think.
I suppose that understanding myself is not a question of intelligence, but of feeling...
Create yes, lie no. Creating is not imagination, it is running the great risk of having reality.
Loving does not end. It's like the world is waiting for me. And I go to meet what awaits me.
I want everything to be intense and over the top and crazy. Because that's the only way I'm satisfied!
Time tries to kidnap my smile, but I resist like a child afraid of its mother when it scrapes its knee. I swallow the tears, so it doesn't hurt anymore.
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