List of Clarice Lispector Quotes

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Clarice Lispector
Total Quotes 57
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
World Goodness Planes
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.
Cheating Believe Want
Love is now, is always. all that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.
Love Life Passion
Facts and particulars annoy me.
Facts Annoying
For only when i err do i get away from what i know and what i understand. if "truth" were what i can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. truth must reside precisely in what i shall never understand.
Philosophical Ends Get Away
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. why? because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.
Men Needs Praise
Today at school i wrote an essay about flag day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for i even used words without really knowing what they meant.
Beautiful School Knowing
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 unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . the renewed originality of the sin is this: i have to carry out my unknowing, i shall be sinning originally against life.
Ignorance Self Law
But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. yes.
Forget Strawberries Seasons
Brazil is where i have to be, where i have my roots.
Roots Brazil
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Suffering Stories World
I write as if to save somebody’s life. probably my own. life is a kind of madness that death makes. long live the dead because we live in them.
Writing Long Madness
  • Born: December 10, 1920
  • Died: December 9, 1977
  • Occupation: Writer
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