Clarice Lispector: Doing

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“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.”

Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star

Source: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11

“I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”

Clarice Lispector book The Passion According to G.H.

Source: The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 5

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”

Clarice Lispector book A Breath of Life

Source: A Breath of Life

“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”

Clarice Lispector

The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 159