Frases de Clarice Lispector

Sua alma incomensurável. Pois ela era o Mundo. E no entanto vivia o pouco.

Sua vida era uma longa meditação sobre o nada.

Talvez a nordestina já tivesse chegado à conclusão de que a vida incomoda bastante, alma que não cabe bem no corpo, mesmo alma rala como a sua.

Também a barata: qual é o único sentimento de uma barata? a atenção de viver, inextricável de seu corpo.

Temos evitado cair de joelhos diante do primeiro de nós que por amor diga: tens medo.

Tenho medo da nudez, pois ela é a palavra final.

Ter nojo me contradiz, contradiz em mim a minha matéria.

The absence of the God is an act of religion.

The best is not yet written. The best is between the lines.

The courage to live: I keep hidden what needs to be hidden and needs to irradiate in secret.

The extreme and intimate beauty is within it. Yet it’s unreachable—and when it’s within reach that’s when it becomes illusory because once again it remains unreachable.

The footsteps I hear are my own.

The horrible duty is to go to the end. And counting on no one. To live your life yourself.

The instant is of an imminence that takes my breath away.

The most profound thought is a beating heart.

The present is the instant in which the wheel of the speeding car just barely touches the ground.

The sole guarantee is that I was born.

The state of grace of which I’m speaking is not used for anything. It’s as if it came only for us to know that we really exist and the world exists.

The word is my fourth dimension.

There must be a painting totally free of dependence on the figure—or object—which, like music, illustrates nothing, tells no story, and launches no myth.