# Clarice Lispector's most beautiful quotes (with sources)

Saturday as the rose of the week, simplicity that only comes through hard work and an invented truth: the most quoted lines of Clarice Lispector, with the book, column or interview they come from.

- 40 votes · 13 items
- Jul 21, 2024 · Sofia Almeida
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## Top 13

1. **I do not want the terrible limitation of those who live only by what can make sense. Not me: what I want is an invented truth.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Água Viva (1973).
2. **Let no one be fooled: simplicity is only achieved through a great deal of work.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The Hour of the Star (1977).
3. **I think Saturday is the rose of the week.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Column "Attention to Saturday", in Discovering the World.
4. **As long as I have questions and there are no answers, I will go on writing.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Hour of the Star (1977).
5. **Even cutting out your own flaws can be dangerous. You never know which flaw is holding up the whole building.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Letter collected in Correspondências (2002).
6. **She believed in angels and, because she believed, they existed.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The Hour of the Star (1977).
7. **I always kept one quotation mark to my left and another to my right.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Passion According to G.H. (1964).
8. **What we truly are is what the impossible creates in us.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Apple in the Dark (1961).
9. **And no one is me. And no one is you. That is solitude.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Água Viva (1973).
10. **Be alone now and then, or you will be submerged. Even the excessive love of others can submerge a person.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — De corpo inteiro (interviews, 1975).
11. **I suppose understanding me is not a matter of intelligence but of feeling, of making contact. Either it touches you or it doesn't.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Interview with Júlio Lerner, TV Cultura (1977).
12. **Who is not an accident in life?** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Hour of the Star (1977).
13. **I am not afraid of stormy rains or of great loose gales. For I too am the dark of the night.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Hour of the Star (1977).

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