Clarice Lispector Quotes

• What can you do with with the truth that everyone’s a little sad and a little alone.

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• Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart.

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• Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.

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• I work only with lost and founds.

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• I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

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

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• What was good was to have intelligence and yet not understand. It was a strange blessing like experiencing madness without being mad. It was a gentle lack of interest with respect to the so-called things of the intellect, a sweet stupidity.

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• Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist is given license, a priest is given permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.

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• I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

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• Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

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Clarice Lispector (10)

Birth:	10th December, 1920
Death:	9th December, 1977
Nationality:	Brazilian
Profession:	Writer

About

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer who has been described as the most important Jewish writer since Franz Kafka.Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist.

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