Clarice Lispector's most beautiful quotes (with sources)
The top 3 according to 40 votes from people: 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. · Let no one be fooled: simplicity is only achieved through a great deal of work. · I think Saturday is the rose of the week.. (Updated Jul 21, 2024.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 13
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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.
Água Viva (1973).
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2
Let no one be fooled: simplicity is only achieved through a great deal of work.
The Hour of the Star (1977).
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3
I think Saturday is the rose of the week.
Column "Attention to Saturday", in Discovering the World.
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As long as I have questions and there are no answers, I will go on writing.
The Hour of the Star (1977).
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5
Even cutting out your own flaws can be dangerous. You never know which flaw is holding up the whole building.
Letter collected in Correspondências (2002).
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6
She believed in angels and, because she believed, they existed.
The Hour of the Star (1977).
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7
I always kept one quotation mark to my left and another to my right.
The Passion According to G.H. (1964).
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8
What we truly are is what the impossible creates in us.
The Apple in the Dark (1961).
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9
And no one is me. And no one is you. That is solitude.
Água Viva (1973).
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10
Be alone now and then, or you will be submerged. Even the excessive love of others can submerge a person.
De corpo inteiro (interviews, 1975).
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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.
Interview with Júlio Lerner, TV Cultura (1977).
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12
Who is not an accident in life?
The Hour of the Star (1977).
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13
I am not afraid of stormy rains or of great loose gales. For I too am the dark of the night.
The Hour of the Star (1977).
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