Famous Clarice Lispector Quotes

I’ is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms.– Clarice Lispector

The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.– 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

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?– Clarice Lispector

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.– Clarice Lispector

She felt the phrase -œdemand her rights- had lain inside her forever, waiting.– Clarice Lispector

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.– Clarice Lispector

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.– Clarice Lispector

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

