And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes. - Clarice Lispector
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. - Clarice Lispector
Para Sartre a existência precede a essência, no sentido de que existir precede isso que nós somos; e que somos o que nós mesmos escolhemos ser. - Clarice Lispector
(...) às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar. - Clarice Lispector
Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost. - Clarice Lispector
Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon. - Clarice Lispector
Querida quem faz arte sofre como os outros só que tem um meio de expressão. - Clarice Lispector
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. - Clarice Lispector
(...) poucas vezes a gente encontra pessoas cuja alegria não seja somente digestiva. - Clarice Lispector
Las personas depositan la idea del pecado en el sexo. Pero es muy inocente e infantil ese pecado. El infierno mismo es el del amor. - Clarice Lispector