Clarice Lispector Quotes
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
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Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
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Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.
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Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.